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His head struck the stone gate-post, and he measured his length under it. Jael did not know how completely she had conquered him, and she ran in with a face as red as fire, and took the letter up to Grace, and was telling her, all in a heat, about the insolence of her new husband's Irish servant, when suddenly she half recognized the handwriting, and stood staring at it, and began to tremble.
"Jael Dence," said the young man, warmly, "I'm truly obliged to you." "What for?" "For your good advice. I didn't see how good it was till after I had taken it." "I'm afeard Miss Grace gave you better." "She advised me against my heart. What is the use of that?" "Ay, young men are willful." "Come, come, don't you go back. You are my friend and counselor."
"Slaving!" said Jael, with a lofty air of pity. "Why, she is working for her own." Rural logic! "Oh," said Mrs. Little to her, "these clever creatures we look up to so are rather stupid in some things. Slave! Why, I am a general leading my Amazons to victory." And she waved her needle gracefully in the air. "Well, but why not let the shop do them, where you bought the curtains?
Only Sister Jael, who for lack of voice was not included in either of the three choruses of the sisterhood, stoutly defended Brother Friedsam, thinking, perhaps, that it was not a bad thing to have the conceit of the singers reduced; indeed, she was especially pleased that Tabea, the unsurpassed singer of the sisters' gallery, should have suffered rebuke.
'It's for a charity, bishop, said Daisy, imploringly. 'I pay Mother Jael for the day, and give the rest to Mrs Pansey's Home for servants out of work. 'Oh, for a charity, repeated Dr Pendle, smiling; 'that puts quite a different complexion on the question. What do you say, Mr Cargrim?
End your misery by one brave plunge. Speak to dear Jael." "I can't I can't!" "Then let me." "Will it make you happy?" "Very happy. Nothing else can." "Will it make her happy?" "As happy as a queen." "She deserves a better fate." "She asks no better. There, unless you stop me, I shall speak to her." "Well, well," said Henry, very wearily. Mrs. Little went to the door. "Wait a moment," said he.
You'd never have thought it, to look at her, that she was so fond of poking in dirty places." "Jael!" I said, "Mamma was right about the smells in the back-yard. Margery and I hold our noses" "you'd a deal better hold your tongues," interrupted Jael. "We do, Jael, we do, because I don't like mustard-plasters on my throat, and when the back-yard smells a good deal, my throat is always sore.
Jael kept coming in and out of the parlour on divers excuses, eyeing very suspiciously John Halifax and me; especially when she heard me laughing a rare and notable fact for mirth was not the fashion in our house, nor the tendency of my own nature.
It was behind a very old portmanteau, and a tin box with a wig and moths in it, and the bottom part of the shower-bath, just at the corner, which Margery and I call Bass's Straits. So I made a Voyage of Discovery, and brought it out, "thick with dust," as Jael had said.
Five weeks had elapsed, and Grace Carden had lost all her feverish energy, and remained passive, lethargic, fearing every thing, hoping nothing, but quivering all day with expectation of the next blow; for what had she left to expect now but sorrow in some form or other? She often wished to visit Jael Dence again at the hospital; but for some time an invincible repugnance withheld her.
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