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The poor girl was stunned. She was no longer crying. "Oh, oh, oh! What shall I do?" she said. "Who's child is this?" said John, standing over the wicker cradle. The little sufferer from inflamed gums had sobbed itself to sleep. "A real laidy's," said the woman. "Mrs. Jupe told us to tyke great kear of it. The father is Lord something."
"Who is it?" said Jupe in the dark. "Don't you know me, Jupe?" said John. "Father Jawn Storm!" cried the man in a whisper of fear. "I want shelter for the night, Jupe. Can you put me up anywhere?" "You, sir?" The man was staggered and the long rod in his hand shook like a reed.
No, 'e ain't 'ome from the club yet, but 'e might be a-kemmin' in any time now, sir." John Storm had seated himself in the little dark parlour, and was looking round and thinking of Glory. "No matter; my business is with you, Mrs. Jupe," he answered, and at that the twinkling eyes and fat cheeks, which had been doing their best to smile, took on a look of fear.
Bounderby's, bringing his daughter Louisa with him, and Sissy Jupe stood before them, with downcast eyes, while Mr. Gradgrind thus addressed her: "Jupe, I have made up my mind to take you into my house; and when you are not at school, to employ you about Mrs. Gradgrind, who is rather an invalid.
Jupe, and her husband is something in a club, and she has one child of eleven, whose bedfellow I am to be, and here I am now with Miss Slyboots in our little bedroom feeling safe and sound and monarch of all I survey. "Good-night, good people! Half an hour hence I'll be going through a mad march of the incidents of the day, turned topsy-turvy according to the way of dreams. But wae's me! wae's me!
I have thought sometimes; Sissy very timid here; 'that perhaps I tried to learn too much, and that if I had asked to be allowed to try a little less, I might have 'No, Jupe, no, said Mr. Gradgrind, shaking his head in his profoundest and most eminently practical way. 'No. The course you pursued, you pursued according to the system the system and there is no more to be said about it.
Then in a simple way he began to talk about his "missis," and what a good creature she was, and finally announced himself "gyme" to help a parson "as stood up to that there drunken blowke for sake of a woman." "What's your name?" said John. "Jupe," said the man, and then something stirred in John's memory. On the following day John Storm dined with his uncle at Downing Street.
Here we found sundry votaries prostrating themselves before a dark dwarf 'Lady' with jewelled head and spangled jupe: not a few were crawling on their knees up the cruel cobble-stones of the mount.
At least I mean to father, when Merrylegs was always there." "Never mind Merrylegs, Jupe," said Mr. Gradgrind with a frown. "I don't ask about him. I understand you have been in the habit of reading to your father, and what did you read to him, Jupe?" "About the fairies, sir, and the Dwarf, and the Hunchback, and the Genies," she sobbed out: "And about " "Hush!" exclaimed Mr.
The boys, who had been at work on the Wondership, the flying automobile with which they had met such surprising adventures in Brazil, obeyed the summons with alacrity. It was delivered to them by Jupe, the negro factotum of the place. "Massa Chadwick send me on de bustelbolorium," explained Jupe, who had a vocabulary that was all his own, "for yo' alls to come right away by his laburnumtory."
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