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That evening Madame Melmotte told her husband that Marie was now willing to marry Lord Nidderdale; but she did not say anything as to the crossing-sweeper or the black footman, nor did she allude to Marie's threat of the sort of life she would lead her husband.
For the accommodation of the latter, the crossing-sweeper stations himself upon the dirtiest portion of the route, and clearing a broad and convenient path ere the sun is out of bed, awaits the inevitable tide, which must flow, and which can hardly fail of bringing him some remuneration for his labour.
'I should like to know, he said presently, with a curious slowness and suavity, 'I should greatly like to know why you asked him here to-night? 'You know perfectly well that I should ask anybody a convict, a crossing-sweeper if I happened to be half an hour in the same room with him! Flaxman laughed. 'Well, it may be convenient to-night, he said reflectively.
The stranger seeking his way through the streets had better, in most cases, question the first crossing-sweeper he meets in French, and not in English. The English residents are all expected to speak French. But the English residents and the French live on terms of the most cordial fraternity.
Sometimes under archways or on doorsteps, and sometimes in the friendly shelter of the old barrels. While the summer lasted, and the nights were dry and warm, Bob did not mind, he thought it would not hurt Willie, but when the cold weather began it made him very anxious. "Why don't yer try my place where I sleep?" said another crossing-sweeper to him one day, when he told him his trouble.
Sir Harry acknowledged to himself that he had learned a great deal about his cousin, and it was for him to judge after that whether he would receive his cousin at Humblethwaite. Mr. Boltby should not have spoken about the crossing-sweeper.
He was a handsome fellow too, this Lawrence, six feet three, with a curly brown head and the frankest blue eyes that ever looked pityingly, almost wonderingly, on the small and weak things of the earth. And the boy, Wikkey Whiston, was a crossing-sweeper.
It may seem almost an impertinence to use such a word as "decline" in connection with literature at a date when every crossing-sweeper can read, when free libraries are multiplied, when a new novel is published every day all the year round, and when thousands and tens of thousands of books scientific, historical, critical are poured out from the presses.
Errington, this first sunshine's as seductive as a pretty child makes one ready to do anything! Why, I saw an old crossing-sweeper just now sweeping nothing at all for it's as dry as a bone, you see and I had to fork out a sixpence; encouraged useless industry just because of the change in the weather, 'pon my word, eh?" Mrs. Errington's lips tightened ever so little.
I do not love you, and I had rather become the wife of a crossing-sweeper that I loved, than that of a member of the government for whom I have every respect, but no affection. "'As the wife of a crossing-sweeper, it is probable, he answered, 'that you would be miserable. As my wife, you would certainly be admired and powerful, and consequently happy.
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