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'If you please, ma'am, Hexam said they were going to see his sister. 'But that can't be, I think, returned Miss Peecher: 'because Mr Headstone can have no business with HER. Mary Anne again hailed. 'Well, Mary Anne? 'If you please, ma'am, perhaps it's Hexam's business? 'That may be, said Miss Peecher. 'I didn't think of that. Not that it matters at all. Mary Anne again hailed.
'You Bob Gliddery, said Miss Abbey to this pot-boy, 'run round to Hexam's and tell his daughter Lizzie that I want to speak to her. With exemplary swiftness Bob Gliddery departed, and returned. Lizzie, following him, arrived as one of the two female domestics of the Fellowship Porters arranged on the snug little table by the bar fire, Miss Potterson's supper of hot sausages and mashed potatoes.
'I wonder, said Miss Peecher, as she sat making up her weekly report on a half-holiday afternoon, 'what they call Hexam's sister? Mary Anne, at her needlework, attendant and attentive, held her arm up. 'Well, Mary Anne? 'She is named Lizzie, ma'am. 'She can hardly be named Lizzie, I think, Mary Anne, returned Miss Peecher, in a tunefully instructive voice.
The schoolmaster went his way, brooding and brooding, and a sense of being vanquished in a struggle might have been pieced out of his worried face. Truly, in his breast there lingered a resentful shame to find himself defeated by this passion for Charley Hexam's sister, though in the very self-same moments he was concentrating himself upon the object of bringing the passion to a successful issue.
Isabel's eyes dwelt absently upon a white line along a distant hill-top, made, no doubt, by Cæsar's troops; for she had heard that the mosaic floors of Roman houses had been discovered under one of the fields in the neighborhood. This information, imparted by Lord Hexam's cousin, Mrs.
But to Hexam's disgust, at least, their solicitude came to an untimely end, and he was able to secure but two waltzes and a square dance. The duke had spoken for the cotillon, which he had no intention of dancing. He was a most estimable person, but he never ignored an opportunity to talk with a new and interesting woman.
Riah and Miss Potterson proceeded, keenly regretting when the bottom of the glass was reached, and the interview at an end. There was at this time much curiosity among Lizzie Hexam's acquaintances to discover her hiding-place, and many of them paid visits to the dolls' dressmaker in hopes of obtaining from her the desired address. Among these was Mr.
'Now tell me I'm a liar! said the honest man. 'This is Hexam's boat, said Mr Inspector. 'I know her well. 'Look at the broken scull. Look at the t'other scull gone. NOW tell me I am a liar! said the honest man. Mr Inspector stepped into the boat. Eugene and Mortimer looked on. 'And see now! added Riderhood, creeping aft, and showing a stretched rope made fast there and towing overboard.
Whether there were any Lizzies in the early Christian Church must be considered very doubtful, very doubtful. Miss Peecher was exceedingly sage here. 'Speaking correctly, we say, then, that Hexam's sister is called Lizzie; not that she is named so. Do we not, Mary Anne? 'We do, Miss Peecher.
With a brief reference to the happy time when it had been his privilege to know Mrs Rokesmith as Miss Wilfer, Mr Lightwood explained what was amiss with him and why he came. He came bearing Lizzie Hexam's earnest hope that Mrs John Rokesmith would see her married.
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