bitterworth

Updated: June 9, 2025

And he gave Mr. Bitterworth a summary of the facts. "Now look there!" cried Mr. Bitterworth, who was evidently deeply impressed; "it's of no use to try to go against honest right: sooner or later it will triumph. In your case, it has come wonderfully soon.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride

"A little superstition, following on Rachel's peculiar death, may have been excusable, considering the ignorance of the people here, and the tendency to superstition inherent in human nature. But why it should have been revived now, I cannot imagine." Mr. Bitterworth and Jan had walked on. The vicar touched Lionel on the arm, not immediately to follow them. "Mr.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride

Bitterworth were left alone. "So you have come to see the last of me, Bitterworth!" was the remark of Mr. Verner. "Not the last yet, I hope," heartily responded Mr. Bitterworth, who was an older man than Mr. Verner, but hale and active. "You may rally from this attack and get about again. Remember how many serious attacks you have had." "None like this. The end must come; and it has come now.

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The girl, Alice, has seen the ghost, or fancied that she saw it, and was terrified, literally, out of her senses." "How is she going on?" asked Mr. Bitterworth. "Physically, do you mean, sir?" "No, I meant morally, Jan. If all accounts are true, the girl has been losing herself." "Law!" said Jan. "Deerham has known that this many a month past. I'd try and stop it, if I were Lionel."

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He did not choose to say, "Because I knew Sibylla West was to be there;" but that would have been the true answer. "I had nothing particular to do with my evening, so I went up," he said aloud. "Mr. Bitterworth was out. Mrs. Bitterworth thought he had gone into Deerham." "Yes. He was at Deerham when the alarm was given, and hastened on here. Sibylla West was there, was she not?"

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride

This was on the second day of the change. Tynn received Mr. Bitterworth in the hall. "There's no hope, sir, I'm afraid," was Tynn's answer to his inquiries. "He's not in much pain of body, but he is dreadfully anxious and uneasy." "What about?" asked Mr. Bitterworth, who was a little man with a pimpled face. "Nobody knows, sir; he doesn't say.

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"Tynn informs me that he appears to be uneasy in his mind," observed Mr. Bitterworth. "A man so changed, as he has been in the last two years, I have never seen," replied Lionel. "None can have failed to remark it. From entire calmness of mind, he has exhibited anxious restlessness; I may say irritability. Mrs. Verner is ill," Lionel added, as they were ascending the stairs.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride

Hush, Bitterworth! To speak of recovery to me is worse than child's play. I know my time has come. And I am glad to meet it, for it releases me from a world of care." "Were there any in this world who might be supposed to be exempt from care, it is you," said Mr. Bitterworth, leaning towards the invalid, his hale old face expressing the concern he felt.

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Bitterworth and Jan were turning round in front, waiting; and the vicar hastened on, leaving Lionel glued to the spot where he stood. Peal! peal! peal! came the sound of the night-bell at Jan's window as he lay in bed. For Jan had caused the night-bell to be hung there since he was factotum. "Where's the good of waking up the house?" remarked Jan; and he made the alteration.

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