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That's where I was going," said the old man "I was agoing to stop with your father, Miss Jenny; but since I've got into farmer Van Brunt's hands, I don't know any more what's going to become of me; and after that glass of cider, I don't much care! Now let's see let's see 'Miss Jenny Hitchcock, here's something for you.
Clive, who was seldom seen in Hanbridge, made a favourable impression on everyone by his pleasing, unaffected manner and his air of discretion and success. He was a bachelor of thirty-two, and lived in lodgings at Bursley. On the return of the funeral-party from the cemetery, Clive Timmis found Brunt's daughter Eva in his uncle's house.
"Thank you, my dear, but nobody could do that; I doubt if Captain would lie in any arms but mine." "Let me carry the basket, then," said Ellen, "do, Miss Alice." "No, my dear, it hangs very well on my arm. Take it gently; Mrs. Van Brunt's isn't very far off; we shall feel the wind less when we turn." But the road seemed long.
From the first he pleased her, and not least in treating her exactly as she would have wished to be treated namely, as a quite plain person of that part of the middle class which is neither upper nor lower. Few men in the Five Towns would have been capable of forgetting Ezra Brunt's income in talking to Ezra Brunt's daughter.
Brunt's was not exactly alarmed, for nothing could alarm Brunt's; but there was just a sort of suspicion of something in the air at Brunt's that did not make for odious self-conceit. People seemed to become intoxicated when they went into Bostock's, to close their heads in a frenzy of buying. And there the art nouveau music-stool stood in the corner, where Vera had originally seen it!
Van Brunt's ordinary sitting-room; whether she should see the light from it before or after passing the house; and now her glance was directed often behind her, that they might be sure in any case of not missing their desired haven. In vain she looked forward or back; it was all one; no cheering glimmer of lamp or candle greeted her straining eyes.
Hurriedly now from time to time the comforting words were spoken to Ellen, for to pursue the long stretch of way that led onward from Mr. Van Brunt's to Miss Fortune's would be a very serious matter; Alice wanted comfort herself. "Shall we get there soon, do you think, Miss Alice?" said poor Ellen, whose wearied feet carried her painfully over the deepening snow.
May and her mother were left without a penny. The mother did the right thing, and died it was best. May went direct to Brunt's, the largest draper in the Five Towns, and asked for a place under 'Madame' in the dress-making department. Brunt's daughter, who was about to be married, gave her the place instantly.
Run, Ellen, and we'll be there directly." "Who is Mrs. Van Brunt?" Ellen contrived to say, as Nancy hurried her along, "Who is she? run, Ellen! why, she's just Mrs. Van Brunt your Mr. Van Brunt's mother, you know make haste, Ellen! we had rain enough the other day; I'm afraid it wouldn't be good for the grass if you stayed too long in one place; hurry!
I never yet knew Morgan Montgomery do a thing when he promised he would." Ellen's face flushed, and her heart swelled. She stood motionless. "How did you get down here to-night?" "I came in Mr. Van Brunt's ox-cart," said Ellen. "Mr. Van Brunt's ox-cart! Then he's got home, has he?"
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