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In this way it had come about that Charley Hexam had risen in the jumble, taught in the jumble, and been received from the jumble into a better school. 'So you want to go and see your sister, Hexam? 'If you please, Mr Headstone. 'I have half a mind to go with you. Where does your sister live? 'Why, she is not settled yet, Mr Headstone.
Without repitching her voice she yet infused it with a patronizing masculinity that once more startled Hexam into laughter, and caused a silent convulsion in the massive frame of Lady Cecilia Spence. "She knows that was a bit of vengeance," thought Isabel. "But of course, manlike, he'll never suspect it." She turned her deep thoughtful gaze full upon her cousin.
"Yes, he is my cousin," said Isabel, with the accent of resignation. Hexam laughed. Gwynne looked as if the grace of humor had been left out of him. Isabel, innocent and impassive, turned her eyelashes upon her partner.
'But with whom the common course of things might bring me in a moment face to face, any day in the week or any hour in the day. Now, to cast about for some likely means of opening such a channel. The boy, Hexam, was training for and with a schoolmaster. The Secretary knew it, because his sister's share in that disposal of him seemed to be the best part of Lightwood's account of the family.
I forced myself to be constrained, lest you might misinterpret my being more natural. There. It's gone. 'Thank you, said Bella, holding out her little hand. 'Forgive me. 'No! cried the Secretary, eagerly. When they had walked a little further: 'You were going to speak to me, said the Secretary, with the shadow so long on him quite thrown off and cast away, 'about Lizzie Hexam.
However, what we have got to do, is, to succeed to-night, Mr Headstone, and then all the rest follows. 'You are still sanguine, Hexam. 'Certainly I am, sir. Why, we have everything on our side. 'Except your sister, perhaps, thought Bradley. But he only gloomily thought it, and said nothing. 'Everything on our side, repeated the boy with boyish confidence.
As he opened the door, in pursuance of a nod from Lightwood, an extremely pale and disturbed face appeared in the doorway the face of a man much agitated. 'A body missing? asked Gaffer Hexam, stopping short; 'or a body found? Which? 'I am lost! replied the man, in a hurried and an eager manner. 'Lost? 'I I am a stranger, and don't know the way.
'It's not easy for me to talk to you, returned Lizzie, in some confusion, 'for you see all the consequences of what I say, as soon as I say it. 'Take all the consequences, laughed Eugene, 'and take away my disappointment. Lizzie Hexam, as I truly respect you, and as I am your friend and a poor devil of a gentleman, I protest I don't even now understand why you hesitate.
Bradley Headstone and Charley Hexam duly got to the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge, and crossed the bridge, and made along the Middlesex shore towards Millbank.
Not troubled by any such weak imagining, Fascination Fledgeby merely speculated on the time of life at which his beard had begun, and thought once more what a good 'un he was for the part. Some final wooden steps conducted them, stooping under a low penthouse roof, to the house-top. Riah stood still, and, turning to his master, pointed out his guests. Lizzie Hexam and Jenny Wren.
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