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She was now, again, as she had been in those first days before she went with Jasper Kimber; when she was the rose-red angel of the quarters; when children were lured by the touch of her large, shapely hands; when she had been counted a great nurse among her neighbours. The old simple untutored sympathy was in her face.
He told her all about it, and she sat very quietly, listening, nodding her proud old head in approval. He talked about it till it was time to go. Then the old lady became agitated. "My dear boy, you mustn't let Kimber drive you too fast down that hill. Fanny, will you tell Kimber to be careful?" Her face trembled with anxiety as she held it to him to be kissed.
The disconcerting factor in the present bitter questioning in the House was, that it originated on his own side. It was Jasper Kimber who had launched the questions, who moved the motion for adjournment. Jasper had had a letter from Kate Heaver that morning early, which sent him to her, and he had gone to the House to do what he thought to be his duty.
"Now, wouldn't it be a joke, a reg'lar first-class joke, if Kimber and me both had the same idee, if we was both workin' for the same thing an' didn't know it? I reckon it might be so." "What end is thee working for, friend? If the public prints speak true, Kimber is working to stand for Parliament against Lord Eglington." Soolsby grunted and laughed in his throat.
"Now, is that the game of Mister Kimber? Against my Lord Eglington! Hey, but that's a joke, my lord!" "And what is thee working for, Soolsby?" "What do I be working for? To get the Egyptian back to England what else?" "That is no joke." "Ay, but 'tis a joke." The old man chuckled. "'Tis the best joke in the boilin'." He shook his head and moved his body backwards and forwards with glee.
"I am glad you speak to me so," he answered gently. "You and I are both reformers at heart." "Me? I've done nothing, sir, not any good to anybody or anything." "Not to Jasper Kimber?" "You did that, sir; he says so; he says you made him." A quick laugh passed David's lips. "Men are not made so easily. I think I know the trowel and the mortar that built that wall! Thee will marry him, friend?"
There's Mr. and Mrs. Kimber. Kimber, 'e's my 'usband's cousing." Nanny paused. "What about him?" "Well, 'tis this way. They're doin' for Miss Anne, livin' in the house with her. Kimber, 'e sees to the garden and Mrs. Kimber she cooks and that. And Kimber that's my 'usband's cousin 'e was gardener at the vicarage. And now 'e's lost his job along of Master Colin and Miss Anne." "What do you mean?"
Waddington would spoil her evening with Ralph Bevan, she had judged by the change that had come over the house since the return of its master. You felt it first in the depressed faces of the servants, of Partridge and Annie Trinder. A thoughtful gloom had settled even on Kimber. Worse than all, Fanny Waddington had left off humming. Barbara missed that spontaneous expression of her happiness.
Thee didst frighten all who knew thee with thy doings that mad midsummer time. The tavern, the theatre, the cross-roads, and the cockpit was ever such a day! Now, Davy, I must tell of a strange thing. But first, a moment. Thee remembers the man Kimber smitten by thee at the public-house on that day? What think thee has happened?
Still, if you don't mind waiting a minute or two till Kimber comes back with the car, he shall drive you." "Thank you, Mr. Waddington, I'm afraid I've waited quite long enough. It isn't worth while troubling Kimber to drive me a hundred yards." It gave her pleasure to inflict that snub on Mr. Waddington in return for his manoeuvre.
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