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I never heard of one of the Andersons being in disgrace yet." "No shabby fellows, that just manage to keep fair with old Hoxton, and make a show," said Harry. "They look at translations, and copy old stock verses. Oh, it was such fun the other day. What do you think?
Am I to begin Reverend Sir, or My Lord, or is he Venerable, like an archdeacon? What is his name, and what am I to say?" "Why, it is not a correspondence much in my line," said Flora, laughing. "Ah! but you are so intimate with Dr. Hoxton, and your brothers at Oxford! You must know " "I'll take advice," said Flora good-naturedly. "Shall I come, and call before Friday, and tell you the result?"
The woman had almost recognized Mrs. Manston when she had called with her husband lately, but she had kept her veil down. Her residence, before she came to Hoxton, was quite unknown to this next-door neighbour, and Edward could get no manner of clue to it from any other source. Owen reached the church-door a few minutes before the bells began chiming.
And now we haven't got enough to eat for Emma and me and my two little children, for I am a widow myself. But that isn't all. Because he found that his friends in Hoxton was crying shame on him, he got it said as Emma had misbehaved herself, which was a cowardly lie, and all to protect himself.
'That's for the old woman's money, I'll wager! exclaimed Hewett, in an awed voice. 'I can believe it of Clem; if ever there was a downright bad 'un! Was she living in the Close? 'Mrs. Snowdon wasn't. Somewhere in Hoxton. No doubt it was for the money if the charge is true. We won't speak of it before the children. 'Think of that, now!
Why, man alive! for what are you taking me? Do you think this is some unholy jest? Can't you see that I am in deadly earnest? Come and see me where I live " he caught me by the arm, as if he would drag me away then and there, "among the poor in Hoxton.
None of them has ever been so winning as this little maid, who even attracts Dr. Hoxton himself, and obtains sugar-plums and kisses. 'Rather she than I, says Harry, but notice is notice to the white Mayflower, and there is my anxiety I am afraid it is not wholesome to be too engaging ever to get a rebuff. I hope having a younger sister, and outgrowing baby charms may be salutary.
Your cultivated man is apt to pity the respectable poor, on the score of their lack of small excitements, and even in the excess of his generous sympathy to go a Toynbee-Halling in their cause. And Sir Walter Besant once wrote a book about Hoxton, saying, among other things, how monotonous life was there. That is your modern fallacy respecting the lower middle class. One might multiply instances.
He continued, however, to visit them, whilst he preserved his "comfortable" clerkship in the South Sea House. It was under this state of things that they all drifted down to the terrible year 1796. It was a year dark with horror. There was an hereditary taint of insanity in the family, which caused even Charles himself to be placed, for a short time, in Hoxton Lunatic Asylum.
But we, if we have tasks, have tasks of our own choosing. We may not like the world, but anyhow we are free to do our best to alter it. If I were a clerk in Hoxton and you were a city typist, then we MIGHT swear." "It was you who swore," smiled Miss Grammont. "It's the thought of that clerk in Hoxton and that city typist who really keep me at my work. Any smacking ought to come from them.
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