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Gradually Hilda brought the conversation round to Ernest's journalistic experiences, and at last she said very quietly, 'I'm sorry to learn from Mr. Berkeley, dear, that your husband doesn't get quite as much work to do as he would like to have. Edie's tender eyes filled at once with swimming tears.
'Sixpence, Ernest said, without needing to consult his empty purse for confirmation he had counted the pence, as they went, too carefully for that already. 'Edie, I'm afraid we must go at last to the poor man's banker till I can get some more money. 'Oh, Ernest not not not the pawnbroker! 'Yes, Edie, the pawnbroker. The tears came quickly into Edie's eyes, but she answered nothing.
But the first person who caught a sight of the mendicant exclaimed, "Ah! here comes auld Edie, that kens the rules of a' country games better than ony man that ever drave a bowl, or threw an axle-tree, or putted a stane either; let's hae nae quarrelling, callants we'll stand by auld Edie's judgment." Edie was accordingly welcomed, and installed as umpire, with a general shout of gratulation.
Mamma said so; and cousin Edie's book is so beautiful. I 've wanted one ever since I was there. Is'nt mamma good?" "Yes, Eddy," replied the nurse, "your mamma is very good; and you should love her so much, and do everything she tells you to do." "I do love her," said the child. "Oh, I love her more than all the world; and I'm going to mind every thing she says."
Musical, beautiful; beautiful, musical; little Miss Butterfly fly fly fly away! And he brought his fingers down upon the gamut at last, with a hasty, flickering touch that seemed really as delicate as Edie's own. 'I can never get words for it in English, he said again, half speaking with his parted lips; 'it's too dactylic in rhythm for English verse to go to it.
When Edie returned from her walk that afternoon, Mrs. Oswald went up into her bedroom to see her daughter. She knew at once from Edie's radiant blushing face and moist eyes what had taken place, and she kissed the pretty shrinking girl tenderly on her forehead. 'Edie darling, I hope you will be happy, she whispered significantly.
But yer woodent shew me no mercy, an' I can't think of anythin' different. I did love yer an' the childer, but the drink got holt of me. Yer mus' see as Arthur is rapped up, an' Edie's eyes 'ull 'ave to be seen to now an' agen. I'm sorry, but there's nothin' else. I wud like yer to kiss me onst, when they bring me in, and jes say, Bessie, I forgive yer.
Oldbuck started as from a dream; and, in a hurried tone, where vexation strove with a wish to conceal it, paying, at the same time, a tribute to Edie's smooth, greasy, unlined hat, he said, "Go down, go down to Monkbarns let them give you some dinner Or stay; if you do go to the manse, or to Knockwinnock, ye need say nothing about that foolish story of yours."
You girls always talk like Mamma hadn't as much sense as you. She's kind of used up this morning. Wait till I give her her breakfast, and I'll come talk to you." A tray jingled. Mrs. Egg retreated into her bedroom, awed. Adam carried in her breakfast and shut the door with a foot. He complained: "Went in to breakfast at Edie's. Of course she's only sixteen, but I could make better biscuits myself.
In fact, the adept, moved by Edie's exhortations, fetched two or three desperate blows, and succeeded in breaking, not indeed that against which he struck, which, as he had already conjectured, was the solid rock, but the implement which he wielded, jarring at the same time his arms up to the shoulder-blades.
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