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If I was bigger, I could become an usher at a school, or perhaps Mr Orlando Browne, David Howe's employer, would take me as a clerk. So you see, Jane, that I am not afraid of having to work, or afraid of starving; you must therefore go to Mrs Burden's and look after her children, I am sure that they will love you, and then you will be happy.
She wept afresh and Billy was left unconsoled, for Maggie, wiping her eyes to look at Aileen and wonder at her silence, saw that she, too, was weeping; but the tears rolled silently one after another down her flushed cheeks. "Och, Aileen, darlin'! Don't ye cry wid me me burden's heavy enough widout the weight of wan of your tears say something to comfort me heart about Jim."
"We can't help being good perhaps, if that burden's laid on us but there are lengths in other directions we're not absolutely obliged to go. And what I think of when I stick in the pins," she went on, "is that Jane seems to me really never to have had to pay."
I should have enjoyed playing cicerone in Winchester, knowing and loving the place as I do, if it hadn't been for Dick Burden's air of thinking such knowledge as mine quite the musty-fusty luggage of the old fogy. There's no use pretending it didn't rub me up the wrong way!
I'll tell ye what seems to me the differ atween the like o' your Mr Turnbull and the Pharisees�-and it's a great differ. They band heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and laid them upo' men's shouthers, but wadna touch sic like to carry them wi' ane o' their fingers: Mr Turnbull and the like o' him beirs their share. But the burden's nane the less a heavy ane and grievous to be borne."
I should rather have liked to watch Ellaline's face as she climbed the hill, her feet light on yielding grass, where the gold of buttercups and turquoise of harebells lay scattered as she climbed, and as she reached the top, to see England spread under her eyes like a great ring. But that privilege was Burden's. I hope he appreciated it. Mine was to escort Mrs. Senter. I was glad she didn't chat.
"You don't mean he'll have to go to prison?" she faltered. "For ten years!" Britz impressed it on her mercilessly. "Unless they'll" his hand swept the semi-circle in which the others were seated "release him from his pledge." Miss Burden's distress had made a profound impression on everyone in the room. "Won't you save him?" she pleaded. A moment's silence was broken by Mrs. Collins.
"She may be a messenger for Mrs. Collins, Ward's sister," suggested Greig. "Whatever her mission, I'll soon know all about it," asserted Britz. "I'm going to the Tombs." On the way to the big, gray City Prison, the detective tried vainly to account for Josephine Burden's appearance in the case.
When I was getting together the material for my little book on the old alchemists I read a great deal at the library of the Arsenal, which, you may have heard, is singularly rich in all works dealing with the occult sciences. Burden's face assumed an expression of amused disdain. He could not understand why Dr Porhoët occupied his leisure with studies so profitless.
Sarah Fleete exacted from Colonel John Walker, before the nuptials, a pledge that he would give to her daughter by a first marriage, 400 pounds of lawful money of England within the expiration of six months, or at Mary Burden's arrival at the age of sixteen years. When Mrs. Elizabeth Sheppard of Surry County agreed to a marriage with Thomas Warren, the contract, duly recorded, was very specific.
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