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Updated: May 11, 2025
As Valentine Hawkehurst stood thus, there came a loud ringing of the bell, following quickly on the sound of wheels grinding against the kerbstone. Mrs. Woolper opened the door and looked out into the hall. "Charlotte here!" exclaimed Valentine. "You are dreaming, girl!" "And you told me she was dying!" said Mrs. Woolper, with a look of triumph. "What becomes of your fine story now?"
But if by some miracle we could use the Casual Wards as a means of providing for all those who are seeking work from day to day, without a place in which to lay their heads, save the kerbstone of the pavement or the back of a seat on the Embankment, they would utterly fail to have any appreciable effect upon the mass of human misery with which we have to deal.
My feet were uncertain and heavy, and my soul became as a meal sack, limp with emptiness and tied in the middle. People looked upon me scornfully, pitifully, reproachfully. So I avoided their looks, shrinking close to the kerbstone and by furtive glances directing my progress.
In five minutes the dull noise of the kerbstone market in Broad Street had leapt to a high note of frantic interrogation. From within the hive of the Exchange itself could be heard a droning hubbub of fear, and men rushed hatless in and out.
There were no tears in that crowd, though the wives and sweethearts of many of the young men must have stood on the kerbstone to watch them pass. At those moments, in the sunshine, even the sting of parting was forgotten in the enthusiasm and pride which rose up to those splendid ranks of cavalry who were on their way to fight foi France and to uphold the story of their old traditions.
We hauled Dicky in to save his life, and away we all went together, the vehicle every moment increasing its velocity. The path, from sloping from each side to the centre, kept her on a straight course, or we should have brought up against some steps, or a kerbstone, and been saved from the approaching catastrophe. But no such good fortune was in store for us.
So I crossed over and met him, and went close up to him and said, 'Well, what have you to say for yoursel' now? and I gav him a lick under th' ear. He fell down on th' kerbstone and wouldn't get up turned sulky like. There was soon a crowd about, and they tried to wakken him up; but he wouldn't help hisself a bit just sulked and wouldn't stir.
'Thank him; thank him, said Carlo. She quitted her lover's side and went up to Wilfrid with a shyly extended hand. A carriage was drawn up by the kerbstone; the doors of it were open. She had barely made a word intelligible; when Major de Pyrmont pointed to some officers approaching. 'Get her out of the way while there's time, he said in French to Luciano. 'This is her carriage.
The child sat down on the kerbstone, pulled his brother down beside him, and broke the bun in halves. One half he handed to Bob, and would take no refusal. So the two children soon devoured it between them. "I say, Bob," said Willie, when they had finished, "'ave yer 'ad a good day to-day?" "No," said Bob sadly.
Jessie had learned much about Julian in these latter days. Into her pricked and pointed ear, leaf-shaped and the hue of India-rubber, had been whispered a strange tale of the dawning of love in a battered heart, of the blossoming of respect in a warped mind. She had heard of the meeting in Piccadilly, of the meal at the Monico, of the farewell on the kerbstone.
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