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All these objects impressed themselves on Ally's brain, adhering to its obsession and receiving from it an immense significance and importance. She heard Maggie's running feet, and the great leisurely steps of Greatorex, and his voice, soft and kind, encouraging Maggie. "Theer that's t' road. Gently, laass moor' 'aaste, less spead. Now t' tray an' a clane cloth t' woon wi' laace on 't.
It gave her the same subtle and mysterious joy that she had had on the night she and Rowcliffe walked together and saw the thorn-trees on Greffington Edge white under the hidden moon. The gray Farm-house was changed, for Jim Greatorex had got on. He had built himself another granary on the north side of the mistal. He built it long and low, of hewn stone, with a corrugated iron roof.
Greatorex was not yet dead of his pneumonia. The doctor had passed the Vicarage gate. And as he passed he had said to himself. "How execrably she plays." The three sisters waited without a word for the striking of the church clock. The church clock struck ten. At the sound of the study bell Essy came into the dining-room. Essy was the acolyte of Family Prayers.
Alice was wrapped up in her husband and children, in the boy of three who was so like Gwenda, and in the baby girl who was so like Greatorex. But through them she had become approachable. She had the ways of some happy household animal, its quick rushes of affection, and its gaze, the long, spiritual gaze of its maternity, mysterious and appealing.
Jo Greatorex walked up to where Wully had crossed the fresh snow, gave a glance, looked dumbfounded, then pointing to the retreating sheep-dog, he said, with emphasis: "Lads, we're off the track of the Fox. But there's the killer of the Widder's yowes." Some agreed with Jo, others recalled the doubt in the trail and were for going back to make a fresh follow.
At noon, without dinner, went into the City, and there meeting with Greatorex, we went and drank a pot of ale. He told me that he was upon a design to go to Teneriffe to try experiments there. With him to Gresham Colledge Home and found all things in a hurry of business, Slater, our messenger, being here as my cook till very late.
The farm servants were scattered in their villages. Alice had just told Greatorex of Mary's engagement and the Vicar's opposition. "Eh, I was lookin' for it," he said. "But I maade sure it was your oother sister." "So did I, Jim. So it was. So it would have been, only " She stopped herself. She wasn't going to give Mary away to Jim. He looked at her. "Wall, it's nowt t' yo, is it?" "No.
'Too wonderful, said Greatorex to the lady in question, lowering his voice, 'to waste your time on the wrong people. 'I shall waste less of my time after this. Miss Levering spoke thoughtfully. 'I'm relieved to hear it. I can't see you wheedling money for shelters and rot of that sort out of retired grocers. 'You see, you call it rot. We couldn't have got £8000 out of you.
It repudiated the living; it remembered; it kept a grim watch with its dead. But Alice's mind, acutely sensitive in one direction, had become callous in every other. Greatorex was in the kitchen, smoking his Sunday afternoon pipe in the chimney corner, screened from the open doorway by the three-foot thickness of the house wall.
They could no longer ignore it. "Wull yo look at 'Im, doctor?" "Better not ." Rowcliffe would have laid his hand on the young man's arm, muttering a refusal, but Greatorex had moved to the bed and drawn back the sheet. What Gwenda Cartaret had seen was revealed.
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