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I'm sartin sure she'll be better in 'erself when they've put 'im out o' the way. It makes her all ov a fever to think of Muster Wharton gettin' 'im off. I don't bear Jim Hurd no pertickler malice. Isabella may talk herself black i' the face, but she and Johnnie'll have to come 'ome and live along o' me, whatever she may say.
She is uncommon calm, but uncommon bitter, is Lydy Elling. She's never come anear the studio since that day she went out 'oldin' up of 'er skirts. W'en 'er friends goes over she excuses 'erself along o' the strain. Strain Gawd!" James ground his wrath short in his teeth. "I'll tell you what I'll do, James, and it's our only hope. I'll see Lady Ellen tomorrow. The Times says she returned today.
His wife's mother and 'is wife and the children all started crying together, and Joe Barlcomb, when 'e thought of 'is pig, he sat down and cried too. He sat up late that night thinking it over, and, arter looking at it all ways, he made up 'is mind to go and see Mrs. Prince, an old lady that lived all alone by 'erself in a cottage near Smith's farm.
"Why, bless your 'art, sir, she was quite well yesterday. Quite 'erself, she was, when you come. But after you went away she seemed to go all to pieces like. W'en I went hup to 'er, to carry 'er 'er tea She always 'as 'er tea; I've been a mother to 'er, I 'ave she'll tell you so. W'en I went hup with the tea there she was in a faint. W'ite as if she was dead. My word, sir, I was frightened.
"They say crazy folks jest natcherly drift back into the'r old ruts, an' the best way is to let 'em alone. Ef she kin feed 'erself we'll be in luck; some crazy folks jest gaum the'rselves from head to foot an' have to have constant attention." "But you ain't a-goin' to let 'er stay, are you?" cried his wife. Peter smiled grimly and went to the mantel-piece for his foul-smelling comforter.
Well, I chucked him, and smashed things about, and gave 'er a scaring, and she ran up and locked 'erself into the spare room." "Well?" "That's all. I says to 'er the next morning, 'Now you know, I says, 'what I'm like when I'm roused. And I didn't have to say anything more." "And you've been happy ever after, eh?" "So to speak. There's nothing like putting your foot down with them.
But in her heart there was reason enough for this caution; there had been days yes, and nights too when, during her lamented husband's lifetime, she had "taken a drop," taken it, obviously enough, as a comfort, and a solace when things were going very hard with her, and "'Enery preferrin' 'er to be jolly 'erself to keep 'im company."
An' the worst of it is I'm sure he saw me, though I give 'im the slip by going into Swan and Edgar's at one door and out at another. If he finds me, Mrs. Rickett, 'e'll kill me. I told 'er not to worrit 'erself, an' I clean furgot the matter till the next night, when the pore dear creature was stabbed to the 'eart.
Snummitt! she sez and all of a twitter she was too, 'dear Mrs. Snummitt, sez she, 'I'm a-going away on a journey, she sez, 'but before I go, she sez, 'I should like to kiss you good-by, me being so lonesome, she sez. Which kiss me she did, sir, and likewise wep' a couple o' big tears over me, pore soul, and then, run away into 'er dark little attic and locked 'erself in, and done it!"
Moreover, if she can she will." "How?" asked Charlie, somewhat amused by the earnestness of his little friend. "Why, this way. She's a good old soul who lost 'er 'usband an' 'er son if I ain't mistaken through drink, an' ever since, she 'as devoted 'erself body an' soul to save men an' women from drink.
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