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'Is it the last occupant's furniture? inquired my aunt. 'Yes, it is, ma'am, said Mrs. Crupp. 'What's become of him? asked my aunt. Mrs. Crupp was taken with a troublesome cough, in the midst of which she articulated with much difficulty. 'He was took ill here, ma'am, and ugh! ugh! ugh! dear me! and he died! 'Hey! What did he die of? asked my aunt. 'Well, ma'am, he died of drink, said Mrs.
As I was delighted with the place, my aunt and Mrs. Crupp withdrew into the pantry to discuss the terms, while I remained on the sitting-room sofa, hardly daring to think it possible that I could be destined to live in such a noble residence. After a single combat of some duration they returned, and I saw, to my joy, both in Mrs. Crupp's countenance and in my aunt's, that the deed was done.
Still, the long, long night seemed heavy and hopeless as ever, and no promise of day was in the murky sky. When I went out to the Commons, I charged Mrs. Crupp with particular directions to leave the windows open, that my sitting-room might be aired, and purged of his presence. I saw no more of Uriah Heep, until the day when Agnes left town.
Crupp, stipulated for, was, that she should not be 'brought in contract' with such persons.
Crupp, after holding divers conversations respecting Peggotty, in a very high-pitched voice, on the staircase with some invisible Familiar it would appear, for corporeally speaking she was quite alone at those times addressed a letter to me, developing her views.
"Nature abhors a Vacuum," said Crupp, supporting me. "Bailey's trained officials," suggested Gane. "Quacks with a certificate of approval from Altiora," said Thorns. "I admit the horrors of the alternative. There'd be a massacre in three years." "One may go on trying possibilities for ever," I said. "One thing emerges.
Make a new, more definite place for myself. You know, of course, there's already a sort of group about Crupp and Gane." Margaret seemed lost for a time in painful thought. "For me," she said at last, "our political work has been a religion it has been more than a religion." I heard in silence. I had no form of protest available against the implications of that.
I was always looking out, as may be supposed, for another invitation to Mr. Spenlow's house. I was always being disappointed, for I got none. Mrs. Crupp must have been a woman of penetration; for when this attachment was but a few weeks old, and I had not had the courage to write more explicitly even to Agnes, than that I had been to Mr.
Crupp said, in the first place, of course it was well known she couldn't be expected to wait, but she knew a handy young man, who she thought could be prevailed upon to do it, and whose terms would be five shillings, and what I pleased. I said, certainly we would have him. Next Mrs. I said, what would be the expense of this young female? and Mrs.
Crupp, when the spasms were engendering in the nankeen bosom of that exemplary female, so also in the maternal confidences volunteered by the same witness, there was an appreciable reminder of another lady who will be remembered as having been introduced at the Coroner's Inquest in Bleak House as "Anastasia Piper, gentlemen."
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