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Updated: June 6, 2025
Alas, her purse was all too soon emptied, and she had also upon her the awful load of debt, for Poppy Jenkins it seems, lent her the money to get that rubbishy story published. In her despair she thought of The Joy-bell, and went off to see the editor. "Luckily I came home that evening, and found your poor little sister in sad trouble.
The abbot was helpless with rage and humiliation when I brought him out on a balcony and showed him the head of the state marching in and never a monk on hand to offer him welcome, and no stir of life or clang of joy-bell to glad his spirit. He took one look and then flew to rouse out his forces.
Yes, of course, I can sell a few copies. Bridget said she would buy one, and she said she had two cronies who would be sure to take a copy each. Yes, I expect I shall make a few shillings by the sale of The Joy-bell to-day, and that will keep me going fine. Oh, dear! the very moment I have earned a little money by them I must send a copy down to Daisy.
They were unlikely to meet any of the peasants in the neighbourhood; and, indeed, Berenger had so constantly ridden out in his black mask, that its absence, now that his scars were gone, was as complete a change as could be effected in one whose height was of unusual. 'There begins the kneel, said Philip, standing at the window. 'It's our joy-bell, Berry!
In due time the three reached the office of The Joy-bell and were admitted into the presence of the editor. "You musn't let me accept too low terms, Poppy," said Jasmine, as they were going in at the door. Poppy nodded very brightly in reply, and Jasmine took the seat the editor offered her with a certain little air of modest elation.
"Do you know I'm quite miserable about this; I've been getting more and more wretched ever since I left that man's office. Suppose, Daisy, I don't sell a hundred copies of The Joy-bell; then I shall never be able to have any more of my story printed, and I shall never have it in my power to pay Poppy back.
Jasmine's interview with this editor caused her to come away in very high spirits, for he had not only promised most carefully to consider her poem, "The Flight of the Beautiful," but he had also said he was wanting a serial story to run through the pages of The Joy-bell, and if hers happened to suit him he would be happy to use it.
"Two letters," said Daisy, holding them up in her hand; "actually two letters; one for Primrose oh, yes! of course that must be from Mr. Danesfield; and one for Jasmine oh! Jasmine's is such a funny-looking letter, quite thick and interesting, and with a darling little picture on the back. What can the picture be? oh! some little bells, and The Joy-bell written over them."
"So am I, too," said Jasmine, the April cloud quickly leaving her expressive face "I'm so glad I have you with me, dear Poppy; I was feeling so low just now that I should never have noticed the office of The Joy-bell it has a very nice, high-class sound, and I should say was a more attractive magazine than even a shilling one.
The joy-bell of birth is a note of warning to the knell for the dead; it wakes the worms beneath the mould: the new-born, every year that it grows and flourishes, speeds the parent to their feast. Yet who can predict that the infant shall become the heir? Who can tell that Death sits not side by side with the nurse at the cradle?
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