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About ten o'clock he came to Farringdon Road Buildings, and with a glance up towards the Hewetts' window he was passing by when a hand clutched at him. Turning, he saw the face of John Hewett, painfully disturbed, strained in some wild emotion. 'Sidney! Come this way; I want to speak to you. 'Why, what's wrong? 'Come over here. Sidney I've found my girl I've found Clara! Mrs.
The Hewetts became his closest friends; in their brief prosperity he rejoiced with them, in their hardships he gave them all the assistance to which John's pride would consent; his name was never spoken among them but with warmth and gratitude.
He took a deep breath. 'Yes, go there, said Snowdon; 'but afterwards go to the Hewetts'. If she hasn't written to them, or let them have news of any kind, her father oughtn't to be kept in ignorance for another hour. 'He ought to have been told before this, replied Sidney ill a thick under-voice. 'He ought to have been told on Saturday. And the blame'll be mine.
'You knew his sister her as is come 'ome? 'His sister? 'Her as was a actress. Mrs. Bannister was tellin' me only last night; she had it from Mrs. Horrocks, as heard from a friend of hers as lives in the Farrin'don Buildin's, where the Hewetts lives too. They tell me it was in the Sunday paper, though I don't remember nothing about it at the time.
Up in the Hewetts' back-room lay Jane Snowdon, now seemingly asleep, now delirious. When she talked, a name was constantly upon her lips; she kept calling for 'Mr. Kirkwood. Amy was at school; Annie and Tom frequently went into the room and gazed curiously at the sick girl. Mrs. Hewett felt so ill to-day that she could only lie on the bed and try to silence her baby's crying.
Oh, I remember; she lives in the same house as Pennyloaf. Yes: let her come in. The woman was introduced to the Byasses' parlour, which Bessie thought more cheerful for Jane just now then the room upstairs. 'Have you heard anything of what's been goin on with the Hewetts, Miss? she began. 'No, I haven't been able to go out this week. I've had trouble at home.
For the first time for many months he had allowed Sunday to pass without visiting the Hewetts. He felt that to go there at present would only be to increase the parents' depression by his own low spirits. Clara had left them now, however, and if he still stayed away, his behaviour might be misinterpreted.
"He stopped us this very morning," Rose again joined in the chorus, "when May and I were going with the Hewetts to gather primroses in Parson's Meadow. He asked if our sisters that was you, Dora, with Annie thrown into the bargain thought of going on the river this afternoon."
State education had recently made a show of establishing itself, and in the Hewetts' world much argument was going on with reference to the new Board schools, and their advantages or disadvantages when compared with those in which working-folk's children had hitherto been taught. Clara went to a Church school, and the expense was greater than the new system rendered necessary.
'I see you've still got the card in the window. I shouldn't wonder if I could find you a lodger for those top-rooms. 'And who's that? No children, mind. Sidney told her what he could of the old man. Of Jane he only said that she had hitherto lived with the Hewetts' landlady, and was now going to be removed by her grandfather, having just got through an illness.
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