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It was, indeed, something of an achievement to get on terms of confidence with these alien children of the tenements and the streets who from their earliest years had been forced to shift for themselves, and many of whom had acquired a precocious suspicion of Greeks bearing gifts. Insall himself had used the phrase, and explained it to Janet.
Meanwhile Insall had come up and seated himself below them on the edge of the platform. "Oh, Brooks, your friend Miss Bumpus is employed in the Strike Headquarters!" Mrs. Brocklehurst cried, and turning to Janet she went on. "I didn't realize you were a factory girl, I must say you don't look it."
Maturin's impatient proposals, brought her to a point where she blurted out the solution herself. "Oriental poppies! How stupid of me not to think of them!" "How stupid of me!" Insall echoed and Janet, bending over her weeding, made sure they had been in his mind all the while.
"Well, you adopt her and I'll marry her," replied Insall, with a smile, as he cut the string from the last bundle of clothing. "You might do worse. It would be a joke if you did !" His friend paused to consider this preposterous possibility. "One never can tell whom a man like you, an artist, will marry." "We've no business to marry at all," said Insall, laughing.
She pretended not to notice the tears in Janet's eyes, and strove to keep back her own. "Delphin and Herve saw a moose in the decharge," she explained. "Of course it was a big one, it always is! They're telling the doctor about it." "Mrs. Maturin," said Janet, "I'd like to talk to you. I think I ought to tell you what Mr. Insall says."
Maturin. "Couldn't we take her to our little hospital at Silliston, doctor? It's only four miles that isn't much in an automobile, and the roads are good now." "Well, the risk isn't much greater, if you have a closed car, and she would, of course, be better looked after," the physician consented. "I'll see to it at once," said Insall....
I can imagine myself how such a strike as this might appeal to a girl with a sense of rebellion against sordidness and lack of opportunity especially if she has had a tragic experience. And sometimes I suspect she has had one." "Well, it's an interesting theory," Insall admitted indulgently. "I'm merely amplifying your suggestions, only you won't admit that they are yours.
This excitement, whenever Insall chanced to be present, was intensified, as she sat a silent but often quivering listener to his amusing and pungent comments on these new ideas.
And knowing many of the verses by heart, she would watch Janet's face, framed in the soft dark hair that fell in two long plaits over her shoulders. For Janet little guessed the thought that went into the choosing of these books, nor could she know of the hours spent by this lady pondering over library shelves or consulting eagerly with Brooks Insall.
Another time I told her about Silliston, and how this little community for over a century and a half had tried to keep its standard flying, to carry on the work begun by old Andrew, and I thought of those lines, "Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore." That particular application just suddenly, occurred to me, but she inspired it." "You're a born schoolma'am," Insall laughed.
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