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M. ‘Yes, that must be very sad for you.’ K. ‘It’s awful, but there’s much worse than that. My second husband, Gordon, the father of Arthur and Maggie, is married again, and his wife is jealous of his eldest children, and hates the time when they come to stay. And my little Arthur is so delicate, he requires ceaseless care and studying I never have a happy moment when he is with them; he doesn’t get on well with the other children either, and always returns from the visits looking ill and wretched. I
"Stick Smith’s a fool," he thought to himself impatiently. "Tray chick doesn’t mean ’some chicken.’ It means a pretty girl, in French."
“And why should he go to father, especially on the sly, if, as you say yourself, Agrafena Alexandrovna won’t come at all?” Ivan went on, turning white with anger. “You say that yourself, and all the while I’ve been here, I’ve felt sure it was all the old man’s fancy, and the creature won’t come to him. Why should Dmitri break in on him if she doesn’t come?
I tell you we’re four sick men! We’ve got a grip on ourselves yet, but it’s slipping. We’re still fairly civil to each other, but the strain is killing. Sullen silences smother irritability, but " he added in a peculiarly pleasant voice, "I expect we are likely to start killing each other if somebody doesn’t get us out of here very damn quick."
“But that doesn’t seem hardly fair,” protested Truax. “See here, I have spent all my money getting here. I haven’t even the price of a lodging with me, and this isn’t a summer night.” “Why, I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” Benson went on, feeling in one of his pockets. “Here’s a dollar. That’ll buy you a bed and a breakfast at the hotel up the street.
“Oh, doesn’t she look like the Dame in fairy tales?” Maida said. They played for a half an hour. And who do you suppose won? Not Maida with all her new-found strength, not Rosie with all her nervous energy, not Billy with all his athletic training. “Mrs. Delia Flynn, champion of America and Ireland,” Billy greeted the victor. “Granny, we’ll have to enter you in the next Olympic games.”
I have no doubt that the majority of the readers who have patiently found their way thus far through this little book will feel like closing it with a sigh of impatience at the sight of the chapter heading above. “Who doesn’t know how to build a wood fire?
He is awfully keen on it. He doesn’t ask me, but orders me to escape. He doesn’t doubt of my obeying him, though I showed him all my heart as I have to you, and told him about the hymn, too. He told me he’d arrange it; he’s found out about everything. But of that later. He’s simply set on it. It’s all a matter of money: he’ll pay ten thousand for escape and give me twenty thousand for America.
“Surest thing you know,” Dicky said cheerfully. “She won’t take a dare. You ought to see her playing stumps. There’s nothing a boy can do that she won’t do. And have you noticed how she can spin a top—the best I ever saw for a girl.” Then boys liked girls to be tom-boys. This was a great surprise. “How does it happen that she doesn’t go to school often?” Dicky grinned. “Hooking jack!”
“But time passed, and Fyodor Pavlovitch did not give the prisoner the expected three thousand; on the contrary, the latter heard that he meant to use this sum to seduce the woman he, the prisoner, loved. ‘If Fyodor Pavlovitch doesn’t give the money,’ he thought, ‘I shall be put in the position of a thief before Katerina Ivanovna.’ And then the idea presented itself to him that he would go to Katerina Ivanovna, lay before her the fifteen hundred roubles he still carried round his neck, and say, ‘I am a scoundrel, but not a thief.’ So here we have already a twofold reason why he should guard that sum of money as the apple of his eye, why he shouldn’t unpick the little bag, and spend it a hundred at a time.
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