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Updated: June 22, 2025
Jessop's drawing-room, ruddy with fire-light, glittering with delicate wax candle-light; a few women in pale-coloured gauzy dresses, a few men, sublime in blue coats, gold buttons, yellow waistcoats, and smiles this was all I noticed of the scene, which was quite a novel scene to me.
Certain, even when, as we sat at our dish of tea, there came in two little dainty notes the first invitations to worldly festivity that had ever tempted our Quaker household, and which Jael flung out of her fingers as if they had been coals from Gehenna. Jessop's, with Mr. and Lady Caroline Brithwood, of the Mythe House. "Give them to your father, Phineas."
He did not want to make a mistake, neither did he wish to be laughed at. Still, the laughing would not matter if everything turned out right. Anyhow, Miss Jessop's laugh was very kindly.
Not for all the knowledge and all the accomplishments in the world would these parents have suffered either son or daughter living souls intrusted them by the Divine Father to be brought up anywhere out of their own sight, out of the shelter and safeguard of their own natural home. "Love, when I was waiting to-day in Jessop's bank "
Poets and prose writers alike were wont to agree in giving Catherine Street an unenviable reputation. Gay is specially outspoken in his description of that thoroughfare and the class by which it used to be haunted. It was in this street, too, that Jessop's once flourished, "the most disreputable night house of London."
"W 's have stopped payment." W 's was a great London house, the favourite banking-house in our country, with which many provincial banks, and Jessop's especially, were widely connected, and would be no one knew how widely involved. "W 's stopped payment!"
Alexia was sitting by the fire, almost as Doctor Brudenell had left her, her chin drooping upon her hands, her face almost hidden by her hair. She started at Mrs. Jessop's entrance, flung back the black tresses, and looked up. "What is it?" "I'm sure I'm very sorry, miss," Mrs.
Krill had offered, would be paid to him by Miss Norman. Of course, Pash had known for some time that Maud was too old to have been born of Mrs. Jessop's second marriage with Krill; but he never knew that the widow had committed bigamy. He counted on keeping her under his thumb by threatening to prove that Maud was not legally entitled to the money.
Pleasant to see written on every line of their happy faces the blessedness of Nature's law of love love began in youth-time, sincere and pure, free from all sentimental shams, or follies, or shames love mutually plighted, the next strongest bond to that in which it will end, and is meant to end, God's holy ordinance of marriage. We came back across the fields to tea at Mrs. Jessop's.
We came once more upon the old lady, watching the skaters. She again spoke to John, and looked at me with her keen, kind, blue eyes. "I think I know who your friend is, though you do not introduce him." Halifax. Are you stronger than you were in London?" "Was he ill in London, madam?" "No, indeed, Phineas! Or only enough to win for me Dr. and Mrs. Jessop's great kindness."
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