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But poor old Bill talked it all over with Jakes, and they thought it better than Dick should take his turn. "Then there was Jakes and poor old Bill; and Captain would not die. "And these two used to watch one another night and day, when Dick was gone and no one else was left to them. And at last poor old Bill fell down in a faint and lay there for an hour.
'May I sit down here? he asked, genuinely grieved and genuinely anxious to find out what the matter was. 'Certainly, said Althea in chilly tones. He was a little confused. It had something to do with the kissing, he felt sure. 'Miss Jakes, I'm afraid you'll never believe me a serious person, he said. 'Why should you be serious? said Althea. 'You are angry with me, Gerald remarked dismally.
"That is six thousand pounds a year at four per cent.," commented Angela, without a moment's hesitation. "Then I really think you might put a flue into the old greenhouse, and allow a shilling a week to Mrs. Jakes' mother." "Curse Mrs. Jakes' mother! Nobody but a woman would have interrupted with such nonsense. Listen.
The old man sat resting: I had promised him a lift with my friend the driver of the flour-cart, and he was almost due when the child's grandmother came down the road. When she saw my other visitor she stood amazed. "What, Richard Hunton, that worked with my old man years ago up at Ditton, whatever are you doin' all these miles from your own place?" "Is it Eliza Jakes?"
The Huguenot doctrines had only grown a little colder, a little harder, turned into New England Orthodoxy as it was understood fifty years ago. He thought little of his French descent or his noble blood. He pronounced his name Jakes, as all his neighbors did; he lived on his farm, as they lived on theirs.
An armed drifter, coming in from the open sea, stood out against the light in strong relief. "Here's Mouldy Jakes coming back from Night Patrol I bet even he isn't as cold as I am." "Rot!" retorted the Physical Trainer. "Do you good, Tweedledum, to hop round a bit on a lovely morning like this!" "Hop round!" echoed the other. "Hop round!" He looked about him as if searching for a weapon.
'But, Miss Buchanan, he said, pausing between his sentences, for he did not see his way, 'I'm in love with another woman that is and for a longer pause his way became quite invisible 'I've been in love with another woman for years. 'You mean Miss Jakes, said Miss Buchanan. 'Helen told me about it. But does that interfere?
Parties of young men, at table in the fashionable restaurateurs' rooms on the mezzanine floor, ran to the windows, napkin in hand, and howled: "Cannibals, man-eaters, vampires!" The cart having plunged into a heap of refuse that had not been removed during the two days of civil disorder, the gilded youth screamed with delight: "The waggon's mired.... Hurrah! The Jacobins in the jakes!"
Why should we all have reason to feel that "friend" might, without any violation of truth, be substituted for the last word in that acute remark on the "fine frankness about unpleasant truths which marks the relative"? Well might Bob Jakes say, "Lor, miss, it's a fine thing to hev' a dumb brute fond o' yer! it sticks to yer and makes no jaw."
By the way observe, I had formerly been well receiv'd by this attendant of Tryphoena, when I maintain'd a commerce with her mistress, upon that score she resented my converse with Tryphoena, and deeply sighing, made me eager to know the occasion; when she, stepping back, thus began, "If you had any sparks of the gentleman in you, you'd value her no more than a common prostitute; if you were a man you wou'd not descend to such a jakes."
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