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Timmis to the effect that Ezra Brunt had remarked at the Turk's Head that 'th' old leech was only sticking out for every brass farthing he could get. The report was untrue, but Mr. Timmis believed it, and from that moment Ezra Brunt's chances of obtaining the chemist's shop vanished completely.
When George Christopher Timmis buried his wife, Ezra Brunt, as a near neighbour, was asked to the funeral. 'The cortège will move at 1.30, ran the printed invitation, and at 1.15 Brunt's carriage was decorously in place behind the hearse and the two mourning-coaches.
Ellen was very sorry, both for her own sake and Mr. Van Brunt's, who she was sure felt much, though, according to his general custom, he said nothing. Ellen felt for him none the less. She little thought what an important bearing this event would have upon her own future well-being. The winter passed and the spring came. One fine, mild, pleasant afternoon, early in May, Mr.
"I am sorry that is Yankee, for I suppose one must speak English. I want to do something to my tree, then. Where is he, Alice?" "He is gone down to Mr. Van Brunt's, to see how he is, and to speak to Miss Fortune about you on his way back." "Oh, how kind of him! he's very good; that is just what I want to know; but I am sorry, after this long ride " "He don't mind that, Ellie.
In spite of Stephen's allegations of innocence, the hat had been sent somewhere probably to Brunt's at Hanbridge to be copied at express speed, and Stephen had presented the copy to Felix, in order that Felix might present it to Mary Callear the chambermaid, and the meeting in the front garden had been deliberately arranged by that odious male, Stephen.
He paid it to her quarterly, by cheque. Such was his method. The mischief was that the gown lacked, for its final perfection, one particular thing, and that particular thing was separated from Vera by the glass front of Brunt's celebrated shop at Hanbridge. Vera could have managed without it. The gown would still have been brilliant without it. But Vera had seen it, and she WANTED it.
Van Brunt's, but it must be above here; I must have missed it, though I have been on the watch constantly." She looked up and down. It would have been a sharp eye indeed that had detected any slight opening in the woods on either side of the path, which the driving snow-storm blended into one continuous wall of trees.
The most acutely critical shoppers of the Five Towns women who were in the habit of going to London every year for the January sales spoke of Brunt's as a 'right-down good shop. And the husbands of these ladies, manufacturers who employed from two hundred to a thousand men, regarded Ezra Brunt as a commercial magnate of equal importance with themselves.
Van Brunt's attention was perfectly fixed. He lay still, without moving his eyes from her face, till she stopped; then thanking her, he declared that was a "first-rate book," and he "should like mainly to hear the hull on it." From that time Ellen was diligent in her attendance on him.
Ellen took her place in silence, for one look at her aunt's face told her that no "good morning" would be accepted. Miss Fortune was in a particularly bad humour, owing, among other things, to Mr. Van Brunt's having refused to eat his breakfast unless Ellen were called. An unlucky piece of kindness. She neither spoke to Ellen nor looked at her; Mr. Van Brunt did what in him lay to make amends.
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