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The meaning of all this, poor Mrs. Claire understood but too well. With what a shock it fell upon her. She asked no further question. What need was there? Edie's artless story made every thing clear. Fanny had been enticed away by some one employed by Jasper, and was now in his possession! With pale face and quivering lips, she sat bending over Edie, silent for several moments.
"Why don't you have a birthday oftener? It makes you look so pretty, dear." Anne's heart leaped. Edie's ways, her very words sometimes were like Walter's. "Has Walter seen you?" Anne's face became instantly solemn, but it was not sad. "Edie," she said, "do you know what he has given me!" "Yes," said Edith. Her eyes searched Anne's eyes with pain in them that was somehow akin to Walter's pain.
Good morning. So that was the end of weeping little Edie's poor hardly-spared three guineas. The very next day Arthur Berkeley happened to mount the stairs quietly, at an earlier hour than usual, and knocked at the door of Ernest's lodging. There was no answer, so he turned the handle, and entered by himself. The remains of breakfast lay upon the table.
So he even went so far as to mitigate considerably the native truculence of his political economy paper, after Edie's advice not, of course, by making any suggestion of opinions he did not hold, but by suppressing the too-prominent expression of those he actually believed in.
"You mean he's the same sort of person as Mr. Hannay?" "I should say he was, if anything, worse." "You mean he's a bad man?" "Well " "So bad that you won't have him in the house?" "Well, dear, you know we are particular." "So am I," said Anne. "And this," she said to herself, "is the man whom Edie's fond of, Walter's dearest friend. And my friends won't have him in their house."
Robert looked at his mistress as she retired into the house, and seeing he was not prohibited, flew to the stable-yard, which was adjacent to the court, in order to yoke the, carriage; for, though an old beggar was the personage least likely to render effectual assistance in a case of pecuniary distress, yet there was among the common people of Edie's circle, a general idea of his prudence and sagacity, which authorized Robert's conclusion that he would not so earnestly have urged the necessity of this expedition had he not been convinced of its utility.
The door was opened for them by a tall, raw-boned, hard-faced woman, the very embodiment and personification of Edie's ideal skinflint London landlady. Might they see the lodgings, Edie asked dubiously. Yes, they might, indeed, mum, answered the hard-faced woman. Edie glanced at Ernest significantly, as who should say that these would really never do.
A LADY, handsomely dressed, was about leaving her house to make a few calls, when a little boy ran out from the nursery, and clasping one of her gloved hands in both of his, looked up into her face with a glance of winning entreaty, saying, as he did so: "Mamma! dear mamma! Won't you buy me a picture-book, just like cousin Edie's?"
Edie's mind, however, was fully made up on the subject before the pleading began; like that of many a judge, who must nevertheless go through all the forms, and endure in its full extent the eloquence and argumentation of the Bar.
Had it led her to and he shuddered at the thought his wild imagination suggested. It was almost a relief when Hannibal said: "Oh, Mr. Lacey, I'se sure from de way you acted when we fust come, dat you can feel for people in trouble. Miss Edie's berry sick, and I don't know whar to go for a doctor, and she won't have any; but she mus, and right away.
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