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'Thank you, ma'am, returned the light porter. He was a very light porter indeed; as light as in the days when he blinkingly defined a horse, for girl number twenty. 'All is shut up, Bitzer? said Mrs. Sparsit. 'All is shut up, ma'am. 'And what, said Mrs. Sparsit, pouring out her tea, 'is the news of the day? Anything? 'Well, ma'am, I can't say that I have heard anything particular.
Sparsit, making her nose more Roman and her eyebrows more Coriolanian in the strength of her severity, 'that the united masters allow of any such class- combinations. 'Yes, ma'am, said Bitzer. 'Being united themselves, they ought one and all to set their faces against employing any man who is united with any other man, said Mrs. Sparsit.
For, the boys and girls sat on the face of the inclined plane in two compact bodies, divided up the centre by a narrow interval; and Sissy, being at the corner of a row on the sunny side, came in for the beginning of a sunbeam, of which Bitzer, being at the corner of a row on the other side, a few rows in advance, caught the end.
That done, Bitzer was dismissed to town with instructions to recommend Tom to come home by the mail- train. When candles were brought, Mrs. Sparsit murmured, 'Don't be low, sir. Pray let me see you cheerful, sir, as I used to do. Mr.
Scott Jackson," and directing the Sheriff to bring in the prisoner. There was a perceptible movement on the part of the assemblage as Jackson followed Jailer Bitzer and the Sheriff into the court-room and took his place on the left of the witness box and slightly in its rear.
No alarm takes place, till this chap, Bitzer, turns out this morning, and begins to open and prepare the offices for business. Then, looking at Tom's safe, he sees the door ajar, and finds the lock forced, and the money gone. 'Where is Tom, by the by? asked Harthouse, glancing round. 'He has been helping the police, said Bounderby, 'and stays behind at the Bank.
'I have always pitied the delusion, always. 'As to an individual, ma'am, said Bitzer, dropping his voice and drawing nearer, 'he is as improvident as any of the people in this town. And you know what their improvidence is, ma'am. No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does. 'They would do well, returned Mrs. Sparsit, 'to take example by you, Bitzer.
Bounderby had not been long gone, when Bitzer appeared. Bitzer had come down by train, shrieking and rattling over the long line of arches that bestrode the wild country of past and present coal- pits, with an express from Stone Lodge. It was a hasty note to inform Louisa that Mrs. Gradgrind lay very ill.
I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be sometimes heard in Dutch clocks. Not, said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, 'that I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it. I have always considered Bitzer a young man of the most upright principle; and to that I beg to bear my testimony.
I shouldn't wish to disturb you at your meals, ma'am, particularly tea, knowing your partiality for it, said Bitzer, craning a little to look over into the street from where he stood; 'but there's a gentleman been looking up here for a minute or so, ma'am, and he has come across as if he was going to knock. That is his knock, ma'am, no doubt.
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