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She stopped in her wild crying, and turned her face full upon her patron. The whole company perceived the force of the change, and drew a long breath, together, that plainly said, "She will go!" "Be sure you know your own mind, Jupe," Mr. Gradgrind cautioned her; "I say no more. Be sure you know your own mind!"
Bounderby, bending himself at the knees, literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud. Mr. and Miss Gradgrind being then announced, he received the former with a shake of the hand, and the latter with a kiss. 'Can Jupe be sent here, Bounderby? asked Mr. Gradgrind. Certainly. So Jupe was sent there. On coming in, she curtseyed to Mr.
Mr. Gradgrind observed, shaking his head, that all this was very bad; that it showed the necessity of infinite grinding at the mill of knowledge, and that Jupe must be "kept to it." So Jupe was kept to it, and became low spirited, but no wiser. "It would be a fine thing to be you, Miss Louisa!"
"'Sam, sais he, and he gave his head a jupe, and pressed his lips close, like a lemon-squeezer, the way lawyers always do when they want to look wise, 'when I can't drive a nail with one blow, I hammer away till I do git it in.
When I love anybody I think of him last thing at night and first thing in the morning, and now to be left alone I'm sure I shall never live through it!" Glory tried to comfort the poor broken creature. It was her duty to live. There was her child had she never even seen it since she parted with it to Mrs. Jupe?
Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, 'I don't know that girl. Who is that girl? 'Sissy Jupe, sir, explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtseying. 'Sissy is not a name, said Mr. Gradgrind. 'Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia. 'It's father as calls me Sissy, sir, returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.
Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it? There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir! was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of NO was very strong. Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe. 'Girl number twenty, said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge. Sissy blushed, and stood up.
"No, not dead, but I 'ad to put it out, pore thing!" "Ye see, miss," said Mr. Jupe with his mouth full, "my missus couldn't nurse the byeby and 'tend to the biziniss as well, so as reason was " "It brikes my 'eart to think it; but it made such a n'ise, pore darling!" "Does the mother know?" said Glory. "That wasn't necessary, my dear.
The girl believed that her father had not deserted her; she lived in the hope that he would come back, and in the faith that he would be made the happier by her remaining where she was. The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing, on a sound arithmetical basis, that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.
Gradgrind in the presence of his family, and asked if he had had any letter yet about her, Louisa would suspend the occupation of the moment, and look for the reply as earnestly as Sissy did. And when Mr. Gradgrind answered, "No, Jupe, nothing of the sort," the trembling of Sissy's lips would be repeated in Louisa's face, and her eyes would follow Sissy with compassion to the door.
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