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Arrived in front of me, she peered quaintly up at my face, through the obscurity of the room; lifted her doll by the legs; hit me a smart rap with the head of it on my knee; and said "Jicks will sit here." I rubbed my knee, and enthroned Jicks as ordered. At the same time Mr.
But for the mysterious locking of the workshop door, it would have suggested to him nothing more alarming than the arrival of some unexpected visitors. Eager to solve the mystery, he crossed the garden; and, entering the room, found himself face to face with the same two men whom Jicks had discovered ten days previously lounging against the wall.
The child with its legs stretched out straight before it, terminating in a pair of little dusty boots with holes in them lifted its large round eyes, overshadowed by a penthouse of unbrushed flaxen hair; looked gravely at us in return; and made a second call on our hospitality, as follows: "Jicks will have something to drink."
He was constantly dreaming that the ruffian with the "life-preserver" was attacking him again, or that he was lying bleeding on the floor and coaxing Jicks to venture within reach of his hand. If any of us hinted at his occupying himself once more with his favorite art, he stopped his ears, and entreated us not to renew his horrible associations with the past.
He harangues the "natives" to his heart's content: and the wonderful natives like it. "Jicks" is in her element among the aboriginal members of her father's congregation: there are fears that the wandering Arab of the Finch family will end in marrying "a chief." Mrs. Finch I don't expect you to believe this is anticipating another confinement.
After all, it might be quite possible that his view was the right one, and mine the wrong. Second Appearance of Jicks FIVE more days passed. During that interval, we saw our new neighbor constantly. Either Oscar came to the rectory, or we went to Browndown.
The door of the room had been left ajar, when we sent the messenger back to the nursery. I threw it open, and found myself face to face with Jicks in the passage. I felt every nerve in my body shudder at the sight of the child. The poor little thing was white and wild with terror. She was incapable of uttering a word.
This amazing apparition advanced into the middle of the room, holding hugged under one arm a ragged and disreputable-looking doll; stared hard, first at Oscar, then at me; advanced to my knees; laid the disreputable doll on my lap; and, pointing to a vacant chair at my side, claimed the rights of hospitality in these words: "Jicks will sit down."
First Appearance of Jicks THERE walked in, at the open door of the room softly, suddenly, and composedly a chubby female child, who could not possibly have been more than three years old. She had no hat or cap on her head. A dirty pinafore covered her from her chin to her feet.
The child insisting on taking the mug into her own hands steadily emptied it to the last drop recovered her breath with a gasp looked at me with a white mustache of milk on her upper lip and announced the conclusion of her visit, in these terms: "Jicks will get down again." I deposited our young friend on the floor. She took her doll, and stood for a moment deep in thought.
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