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"Not FRIENDS only friendly acquaintance," was the gentle answer: he was well used to turn away, daily and hourly, Abel Fletcher's wrath. But it was roused beyond control when Dr. Jessop's neat little carriage, and neatest of little wives, stopped at the curb-stone and summoned John. "I want you and Mr. Fletcher to come to us to-morrow instead of this evening.
'Oh, did you put in the way they threw the things out at window at Jessop's without looking what they were! cried Lance; 'and the jolly smash the jugs and basins made, and when their house was never on fire at all: and how the coal-heaver said "Hold hard, frail trade there!" 'Well, said Felix quaintly, 'I put it in a different form, you see.
Jessop's favourite roses the same roses I had seen her among on that momentous evening the evening when Ursula's bent neck flushed more crimson than the sunset itself, as I told her John Halifax was "too noble to die for any woman's love." No he had lived for it earned it won it.
When she returned, and perhaps she had been away a minute or two longer than was absolutely necessary, there was a wonderful brightness on her young face; though she listened with a degree of attention, most creditable in its gravity, to a long dissertation of Mrs. Jessop's on the best and cheapest way of making jam and pickles.
And I remember we noticed then especially that we couldn't hear a single sound from her even when the haul yards were let go; and, you know, without the glass, I saw their Old Man singing out something; but we didn't get a sound of it and we should have been able to hear every word. Then, just before eight bells, the thing Jessop's told us about happened.
Jessop's saying pointedly and aloud, though with a smile playing under the corners of her good little mouth: "Mr. Halifax, it is kind of you to come; Lady Caroline Brithwood will be delighted. She longs to make your acquaintance." After that everybody began to talk with extraordinary civility to Mr. Halifax.
Jessop's situation in the Doctor's household was a very comfortable one, and she did not desire to lose it; but Mrs. Jessop's eyes were as keen as those of most women, a fact which she often insisted upon when talking to various confidential friends so keen, indeed, that they sometimes descried things which did not exist. At present, however, Mrs.
They were bonny eyes! lovely in shape and colour, delicately fringed; but there was something strange in their expression or rather, in their want of it. Many babies have a round, vacant stare but this was no stare, only a wide, full look a look of quiet blankness an UNSEEING look. It caught Dr. Jessop's notice. I saw his air of vexed dignity change into a certain anxiety.
"Stole away! stole away! as my husband would say. Here have I come in the dusk, all through the streets to Dr. Jessop's very door. How is she? where is she, ma petite!" "Caroline!" "Ah! come forward. I haven't seen you for an age."
She sat at her work, and he made himself generally pleasant, falling in kindly to the Jessop's household ways. But whatever he was about, at Ursula's lightest movement, at the least sound of her voice, I could see him lift a quiet glance, as if always conscious of her presence; her who was the delight of his eyes.
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