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No contract or engagement, no word of love, has ever passed between us. She does not even know my name. 'I'll ask it for all that. I'll beg it of her with kisses, said Arthur Gride. 'Yes, and she'll tell me, and pay them back, and we'll laugh together, and hug ourselves, and be very merry, when we think of the poor youth that wanted to have her, but couldn't because she was bespoke by me!
'Well, and what then? said Ralph. 'Oh! nothing more, rejoined Gride. 'He tried to frighten you, said Ralph, 'and you WERE frightened I suppose; is that it? 'I frightened HIM by crying thieves and murder, replied Gride. 'Once I was in earnest, I tell you that, for I had more than half a mind to swear he uttered threats, and demanded my life or my money. 'Oho! said Ralph, eyeing him askew.
Handsome or not handsome, to this old man there comes a young fellow who casts all manner of fierce defiances in his teeth gums I should rather say and tells him in plain terms that his mistress hates him. What does he do that for? Philanthropy's sake? 'Not for love of the lady, replied Gride, 'for he said that no word of love his very words had ever passed between 'em.
The father fell into his chair pale and trembling; Arthur Gride plucked and fumbled at his hat, and durst not raise his eyes from the floor; even Ralph crouched for the moment like a beaten hound, cowed by the presence of one young innocent girl! The effect was almost as brief as sudden.
You are to be married tomorrow morning. 'N n no, rejoined Gride. 'Who said I was? How do you know that? 'No matter how, replied Nicholas, 'I know it. The young lady who is to give you her hand hates and despises you. Her blood runs cold at the mention of your name; the vulture and the lamb, the rat and the dove, could not be worse matched than you and she. You see I know her.
'That's it, Mr Noggs, said Gride. Newman gave a nod, put it in his hat, and was shuffling away, when Gride, whose doting delight knew no bounds, beckoned him back again, and said, in a shrill whisper, and with a grin which puckered up his whole face, and almost obscured his eyes: 'Will you will you take a little drop of something just a taste?
Arthur Gride in reply repeated the word 'bell' as loud as he could roar; and, his meaning being rendered further intelligible to Mrs Sliderskew's dull sense of hearing by pantomime expressive of ringing at a street-door, Peg hobbled out, after sharply demanding why he hadn't said there was a ring before, instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it, and keeping her half-pint of beer waiting on the steps.
'Here is an old man about to be forced in marriage upon a girl; and to this old man there comes a handsome young fellow you said he was handsome, didn't you? 'No! snarled Arthur Gride. 'Oh! rejoined Ralph, 'I thought you did. Well!
Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance, stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns. I, too, on my side began to move towards the pit. Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels.
The step was heavy, and accompanied with the gride and clang of coarse sandals. The gilded pillars were between him and the door; he advanced quietly, and leaned against one of them. Presently he heard voices the voices of men one of them rough and guttural. What was said he could not understand, as the language was not of the East or South of Europe.
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