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And Sidney, though anxiously desiring to know the gist of the conversation, in this instance was not gratified. He could not bring himself to put questions, and went away in a mood of vague annoyance which Joseph had the especial power of exciting. With the Byasses, Joseph was forming an intimacy; of this too Sidney became aware, and it irritated him.
Michael was buried at Abney Park Cemetery; no ray of sunlight fell upon his open grave, but the weather was mild, and among the budded trees passed a breath which was the promise of spring. Joseph Snowdon and the Byasses were Jane's only companions in the mourning-carriage; but at the cemetery they were joined by Sidney Kirkwood.
Time enough after the funeral. What shall we do for the poor girl, eh? 'How do I know? 'You won't grudge her a couple of pounds a week, or so, just to enable her to live with the Byasses, as she has been doing? 'I s'pose the money's your own to do what you like with. 'Very kind of you to say so, my dear. But we're well-to-do people now, and we must be polite to each other.
Byasses from prejudice, education, passion, party, &c. hang more upon one mind than another. After we have acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation enlarge much more the sphere of one man's experience and thought than those of another. It would be easy to discover many other circumstances that make a difference in the understandings of men.
On ordinary Sundays the Byasses breakfasted at ten o'clock; this morning the meal was ready at eight, and Bessie's boisterous spirits declared the exception to be of joyous significance.
Oh, I remember; she lives in the same house as Pennyloaf. Yes: let her come in. The woman was introduced to the Byasses' parlour, which Bessie thought more cheerful for Jane just now then the room upstairs. 'Have you heard anything of what's been goin on with the Hewetts, Miss? she began. 'No, I haven't been able to go out this week. I've had trouble at home.
Clem, when she found that nothing definite could be learned, and that her husband had no intention of leaving, expressed her wish to walk round to Clerkenwell Close and see her mother. Joseph approved. 'You'd better have dinner there, he said to her privately. 'We can't both of us come down on the Byasses. She nodded, and with a parting glance of hostile suspicion set forth.
The Byasses had learnt, or had been put in the way of surmising, that Michael Snowdon was wealthy; instantly they passed to the reflection that in marrying Jane their old acquaintance would be doing an excellent stroke of business. They were coarse-minded, and Bessie could even venture to jest with him on this detestable view of his projects.
Snowdon and he were accustomed to smoke their pipes whilst conversing, but this evening Sidney dispensed with tobacco. It was very quiet here. Just now no infant wailing came from the Byasses' regions. Kirkwood enjoyed a sense of restfulness, intenser, perhaps, for the momentary disappointment he had encountered.
He spoke a few words with reference to the Byasses, then seemed to resume a train of thought, and for a long time there was unbroken silence. Jane seated herself at a table, on which were a few books and writing materials. She began to copy something, using the pen with difficulty, and taking extreme pains.
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