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A young gentleman, coming to visit my son, struck and insulted in Hazeldean; a young gentleman, 's death, sir, a relation his grandmother was a Hazeldean. I do believe Jemima's right, and the world's coming to an end! But Leonard Fairfield in the stocks! What will the parson say? and after such a sermon!
During this interim, not wishing to return to Pawson, and being as he said very comfortable where he was with his two servants to wait upon him, and the place as clean as a pin his master had moved his own and Todd's trunk from the steamboat warehouse where they had been stored and had had them brought to Jemima's.
"Why, she is here now; hadn't you a suspicion of it, Mr. Rhodes?" Miss Jemima's face changed so suddenly, that Tom made a great effort to keep from laughing outright. "Oh, Mr. Rhodes," continued Elsie; "I am afraid the attractions of this house are only borrowed ones." The good man was thrown into a state of blushing and pleasant confusion, but the spinster brought him through it without mercy.
It was a wild, unreasoning fear, but it took hold of her as strongly as if it had been well founded. And, indeed, the secret whispered by Mrs Pearson, whose curiosity and suspicion had been excited by Jemima's manner, and confirmed since by many a little corroborating circumstance, had spread abroad, and was known to most of the gossips in Eccleston before it reached Mr Bradshaw's ears.
It was awful to think that perhaps it might be the other way about: she might die first, and the child might be left to starve beside her. The morrow would be Christmas Day. Last Christmas Day she had spent with her dead sister at Birmingham. She remembered that they went to church in the morning, and after dinner she had finished correcting the last revises of "Jemima's Vow."
It ran thus: AUGUSTA SMITHERS in account with MEESON & Co. £ s d To Sale of Right of Translation of 7 0 0 "Jemima's Vow" into French...... Do. do. do. into German 7 0 0 £14 0 0 ======== £ s d Less amount due to Messrs. Meeson, being 7 0 0 one-half of net proceeds Less Commission, &c 3 19 0 £10 19 0 ========== Balance due to Author, as per cheque £3 1 0 herewith.
The dark-eyed, black-haired, modestly-attired, and even sober-looking girl, who put out her hand with a very simple movement, and spoke, with considerable self-possession truly, but certainly not with an impudent air, bore but scant resemblance to the "brazen hussey" who had haunted Miss Jemima's mind for the past two days.
There's no shame in a bit of honest work, anyhow, Jemima; and it's a great treat to me." Miss Jemima's chief concern was to get her unmanageable brother into the house as quickly as possible, and she paid little heed to what he said. There was another personage to whom the unconventional ways of "the Golden Shoemaker" gave great offence; and that was Mr. Bounder, the coachman.
In an unusually bloodthirsty moment Ambrose had once suggested really putting out her eyes with red-hot gauffering-irons, but this was overruled, and Jemima's eyes, pale blue and quite expressionless, continued to stare placidly on the stake, gibbet, or block, as the case might be.
She gazed dreamily at the old church, and the trees, and the pond, and thought of the past; of her mother, and of poor Tom, and of Darling, and she thought till she fancied that she heard Darling's voice in the passage below. She got up to go down to Jemima, but as she did so she heard a footstep on the stairs, and it was not Jemima's tread. It was too light for the step of any man or woman.
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