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As he stood there, a child's face pushed the window-blind of the cottage aside, and the lame boy's large eyes looked Bolderfield up and down. Immediately after, the door opened, and all four children stood huddling behind each other on the threshold. They all looked shyly at the newcomer. They knew him, but in six months they had grown strange to him.
But she had never dared to suggest that he should leave it with her, out of fear of Eliza Bolderfield. Bessie was well aware that Eliza thought ill of her, and would dissuade John from any such arrangement if she could.
As he stood there, a child's face pushed the window-blind of the cottage aside, and the lame boy's large eyes looked Bolderfield up and down. Immediately after, the door opened, and all four children stood huddling behind each other on the threshold. They all looked shyly at the newcomer. They knew him, but in six months they had grown strange to him.
Moulsey at 'the shop, with Dawson, with Hall the butcher. Poor old John poor old fellow! When Bolderfield reached the paling in front of the Costrells' cottage, he paused a moment, holding for support to the half-open gate and struggling for breath. 'I must keep my 'edd, I must, he was saying to himself piteously; don yer be a fool, John Borroful, don yer be a fool!
His temper, perhaps, was 'nassty, which might pull him down a little when the last account came to be made up; and it could not be said that his elder children had come to much, for all his piety. But, on the whole, Bolderfield only wished he stood as well with the powers talked about in chapel every Sunday as Isaac did.
Murch said we wer'n't to trouble her. She'll go when the light comes most like." She was a little shrivelled woman with a singularly delicate mouth, that quivered as she spoke. John and Eliza Bolderfield had never thought much of her, though she was John's cousin. She was a widow, and greatly "put upon" both by her children and her neighbours.
Saunders slipped it into the lock before him. It moved with ease, backwards and forwards. 'H'm! that's strange, he said, taking out the key and turning it over thoughtfully in his hand. 'Yer didn't think as there were another key in this 'ouse that would open your cupboard, did yer, Bolderfield? The old man sank weeping on a chair. He was too broken, too exhausted, to revile Bessie any more.
But she had never dared to suggest that he should leave it with her, out of fear of Eliza Bolderfield. Bessie was well aware that Eliza thought ill of her and would dissuade John from any such arrangement if she could.
Moulsey at "the shop," with Dawson, with Hall the butcher. Poor old John poor old fellow! When Bolderfield reached the paling in front of the Costrells' cottage, he paused a moment, holding for support to the half-open gate and struggling for breath. "I must keep my 'edd, I must," he was saying to himself piteously; "don' yer be a fool, John Borroful, don' yer be a fool!"
He John Bolderfield had been working on for the widow; but, in his opinion, she was 'nobbut a caselty sort of body, and the sooner she and her children were taken off to Barnet, where they were to live with her mother, the less she'd cost them as had the looking after her. As for the crops, they wouldn't pay the debts; not they.
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