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"My husband heard it reported in the City yesterday that he was seriously embarrassed by the failure " A loud burst of applause made the end of the sentence inaudible. A famous member of Parliament had risen to propose the third Resolution. The polite old man took his seat, and the lady left the hall to join her friend. "Well, Mrs. Callender, has Mr. Lismore disappointed you?" "Far from it!
Another visitor, without an appointment, had called; the clerk appeared again, with a card and a message. "The gentleman begs you will see him, sir. He has something to tell you which is too important to be delayed." Hearing the message, Mrs. Callender rose immediately. "It is enough for to-day that we understand each other," she said.
"O Miss Callender," said a thinly clad girl of thirteen, with chattering teeth, and arms folded against her body for warmth, rocking from one foot to the other, as she stood in the door of a tenement house, "this is hard weather for poor folks, ain't it?" And then, unable longer to face the penetrating rawness of the east wind, she turned and ran up the stairs.
The figure came down at length amid shrieks of delight, and when the police charged the mob they flung stones which broke the church windows. Again Glory felt an impulse to throw herself on the cowardly rabble, but she only crouched at the window by the side of Mrs. Callender, and looked down at the sea of faces below with their evil eyes and cruel mouths.
When Kincaid had been away a few days this second time, these two called at the Callender house. To none was this house more interesting than to Flora. In her adroit mind she accused it of harboring ancient secrets in its architecture, shrewd hiding-places in its walls.
It was not made in good faith; for Mrs. Callender knew well, and had been told so fifty times, that the said jelly pot was no longer in existence as a jelly pot; and moreover, she had been, as often as she was told this, offered full compensation, which might be about three farthings sterling money of this realm, for the demolished commodity.
Callender sailing into Glasgow, to purchase a red nightcap for her husband a mission which, we need not say, she very easily accomplished. Her choice was one of the brightest hue she could find a flaming article, that absolutely dazzled Thomas with the intensity of its glare, when it was triumphantly unrolled before him.
Gray took his cigar from his mouth, but did not lift his eyes from the fire. Presently he said, "I suppose that's why Callender declined to take the shares I offered him in the fishing scheme. You know I meant it, and would have done it." "Perhaps he had other reasons." "What do you mean?" said Gray, facing the consul suddenly.
He could not but feel that he was in some sort under condemnation by Miss Callender, and there was something about Miss Callender which made one respect her moral judgment and desire to stand well in her estimation.
With this the room was shaded into a strong coloured twilight and the white frocks shone as though seen through glass. The air grew cold beyond the open windows, but the room was warm with the heat that the walls had stolen and stored from the sun. Joan sat with Jane D'Arcy and Betty Callender. She was very happy to be at rest there; she felt secure and safe.
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