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"In the same year, also, on the 12th of June, there came one Jessop, with a commission from the Earl of Manchester, to take away from gravestones all inscriptions on which he found Orate pro anima a wretched Commissioner not able to read or find out that which his commission enjoyned him to remove he took up in our Church so much brasse, as he sold to Mr.
Jessop mentions the case of a child of eight who suffered a blow on the eye from a fall against a bedpost, followed by compound rupture of the organ. The wound in the sclerotic was three or four lines in length, and the rent in the conjunctiva was so large that it required three sutures. The chief interest in this case was the rapid and complete recovery of vision.
But there were several other things that Mrs. Jessop did not understand for instance, why the doctor for the next few weeks lost his appetite so completely, was so "snappish and short," and seemed to care for nothing but the newspaper; and she was quite scandalized when he actually spent a whole day, as she, by dint of judiciously "pumping" Patrick, contrived to ascertain, in attending the trial of those "horrid wretches of dynamitards," where he heard the case, and heard the sentence of five years' penal servitude passed upon a gray-haired man with a scar upon his cheek.
Winter came early and sudden that year. It was to me a long, dreary season, worse even than my winters inevitably were. I never stirred from my room, and never saw anybody but my father, Dr. Jessop, and Jael. At last I took courage to say to the former that I wished he would send John Halifax up some day. "What does thee want the lad for?" "Only to see him."
The Second nodded, gravely. Then I heard him mutter, in a low voice, and the Old Man replied; after which he turned to me again. "Look here, Jessop," he said. "I'm going to talk straight to you. You strike me as being a cut above the ordinary shellback, and I think you've sense enough to hold your tongue." "I've got my mate's ticket, Sir," I said, simply.
Jessop, their secretary: and it is pretty to see that they are fain to find out an old-fashioned man of Cromwell's to do their business for them, as well as the Parliament to pitch upon such, for the most part, in the list of people that were brought into the House, for Commissioners.
"English authority, indeed!" cried Miss Jessop; "as if we needed English authority for anything. If we can't spell better than your great English authority, Chaucer well!" Language seemed to fail the young woman. "Have you read Chaucer?" asked Mr. Hodden, in surprise. "Certainly not; but I have looked at his poems, and they always remind me of one of those dialect stories in the magazines."
John did not speak, but only held her to him close and fast. When she was a little calmer he whispered to her the comfort the sole comfort even her husband could give her through whose will it was that this affliction came. "And it is more an affliction to you than it will be to her, poor pet!" said Mrs. Jessop, as she wiped her friendly eyes. "She will not miss what she never knew.
"I will finish the story to-morrow, perhaps," said Miss Boucheafen, quietly; "go to bed now. See Mrs. Jessop is waiting for you." They went without a murmur indeed, they hardly looked sulky, but walked off in the wake of Mrs. Jessop, very unlike Laura's children, the Doctor thought.
Jessop, who had heard full details of the occasion, had insisted on coming over to bake the cakes, and hovered in the background like a beneficent deity, sending in fresh batches of hot crumpets. There were chocolates in little silver bonbonnieres and even crackers, though it was not yet Christmas. Aunt Nellie was there and enjoyed the music, and Dr. Tremayne and Dr.
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