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"Perhaps, sir, you might wish to know how she first come to show her tricks on the cards in the circus. There was no danger in her doing that, I know and yet I'd have given almost everything I have, not to let her be shown about as she is. But I was threatened again, in the vilest, wickedest way I hardly know how to tell it, gentlemen, in the presence of such as you Jubber, you must know "
He seized tight hold of her hand and refused to move. If Mr. Jubber had come in at that moment, he would have been thrashed within an inch of his life. The child had ceased moaning when she saw Valentine. She anxiously looked at him through her tears then turned away quickly took out her little handkerchief and began to dry her eyes.
'I'll see she works the money out, says Peggy; 'but she's dead beat to-night, and must have her rest and bit o' supper, before she begins to-morrow. Jubber wanted to give less than ten shillings; but between threatening, and saying it should buy twenty shillings' worth of tailor's work, she got the better of him. And he gave the money, sulky enough.
Jubber, as proprietor of the renowned Circus, has the honor of informing the nobility, gentry, and public, that the above wonderful Deaf and Dumb Female Child will appear between the first and second parts of the evening's performances. Mr.
Jubber invariably adding with a smile: "And as you see, ladies and gentlemen, in excellent health and spirits, notwithstanding: as hearty and happy, I pledge you my sacred word of honor, as the very best of us!" While she was thus delighting the spectators on one side of the circus, how were the spectators on the other side, whose places she had not yet reached, contriving to amuse themselves?
"Thus far I understand nothing whatever, except that you wish to behave offensively to me; which, in a person of your appearance, is, I assure you, of not the slightest consequence. You had much better save time by stating what you have to say in plain words." "You want plain words eh?" cried Jubber, losing his temper. "Then, by God, you shall have them, and plain enough!"
There's a man at our Club large, heavy, middle-aged gorgeously dressed rather bald with lacquered boots and a boa when he goes out; quiet in demeanour, always ordering and consuming a RECHERCHE little dinner: whom I have mistaken for Sir John Pocklington any time these five years, and respected as a man with five hundred pounds PER DIEM; and I find he is but a clerk in an office in the City, with not two hundred pounds income, and his name is Jubber.
They had given her some work to do at the circus, which she was obliged to finish before she could return to the Rectory. Having delivered this message, Vance next produced a handbill, which he said was being widely circulated all over Rubbleford; and which proved to be the composition of Mr. Jubber himself.
"I beg your pardon, sir," answered Vance, casting rather a malicious look at the clown's wife as he closed the door behind him "but there's a person waiting in the hall, who says he comes on important business, and must see you directly." "Who is he? What's his name?" "He says his name is Jubber, if you please, sir." Mrs. Peckover started from her chair with a scream.
It was the old, invariable struggle, between the quiet firmness of good breeding, and the savage obstinacy of bad; and it ended in the old, invariable way. The blackguard flinched first. "If your servant lays a finger on me, I'll thrash him within an inch of his life," said Jubber, looking towards the door, and scowling as he looked.
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