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Updated: September 7, 2025
Levering saw his customer of the day previous enter, and move along towards the place where he stood behind his counter. His heart gave a sudden bound, and the color rose to his face. An accusing conscience was quick to conclude as to the object of her visit. But he soon saw that no suspicion of wrong dealing was in the lady's mind.
'Just when we're happiest she always comes interfiddling. 'Oh, Sara mine, I rather like you! said Miss Levering, laying her laughing face against the tousled hair. 'Now! Now! cried Cecil, suddenly beating with his two fists on the counterpane as though he'd seen as much valuable time wasted as he felt it incumbent upon him to tolerate. 'Go on where you left off.
'Oh, they are usually quite good-natured. 'You handled them wonderfully. 'We're used to dealing with crowds. Her look went round the room, as if to say, 'It's this kind of thing I'm not used to, and I don't take to it over-kindly. 'In the crush at the end, said Miss Levering, 'I overheard a scrap of conversation between two men. They were talking about you. "Very good for a woman," one said.
Miss Levering vanished. 'I didn't know her name was Vida; how did you? said Jean. Stonor bent his head silently over the book. Perhaps he hadn't heard. That deafening old gong was sounding for luncheon. The last of the Trafalgar Square meetings was half over when the great chocolate-coloured motor, containing three persons besides the chauffeur, slowed up on the west side of the square.
'I thought, said Miss Levering, with obvious misgiving, 'I thought I hadn't seen that affected-looking creature before. 'Oh, she'll get over all that, Ernestine whispered. 'You haven't much opinion of our crowds, but they can teach people a lot. 'Teach them not to hold their heads like a broken lily? 'Yes, knock all sorts of nonsense out and stiffen them up wonderfully.
That horrid thought coerced the prudent Sara to endurance of the interloping brother. And now of his own accord Cecil had taken his arms from round his friend's neck. 'That's horrid! he said. 'I don't like that hard thing. Take it off. 'Let me. Sara sat up with alacrity. 'Let me. But Miss Levering undid the sapphire necklace herself.
Miss Levering would lean over the apron of the cab hearing only scraps, till the final, 'Now, all who are in favour of Justice, hold up their hands. As the crowd broke and dissolved, the lady in the hansom would throw open the doors, and standing up in front of the dashboard, she would hail and carry off the arch-agitator, while the crowd surged round.
With a pleasant half recognition, she asked to look at certain articles, from which she made purchases, and in paying for them, placed a ten dollar bill in the hand of the storekeeper. "That weight shall be off my conscience," said Mr. Levering to himself, as he began counting out the change due his customer; and, purposely, he gave her one dollar more than was justly hers in that transaction.
But beyond the other wall lay a shed in which the fire-engine was kept. Its window, he knew, was only covered with wire-netting, and opened on to a field. And as soon as all was quiet in the guard-house he had set to work, listening anxiously in the direction of the corridor during the pauses of his boring and levering.
'It's just as hard, said a bystander to his companion, 'just as hard for learned counsel in the august quiet of the Chancery Division to find out when their cases are really coming on. 'You ask, and you're sent to Marlborough Police Court, said Miss Levering, 'instead of to Marylebone. 'They oughter send yer to 'Olloway do y' good. 'You go on, miss. Nobody minds 'im.
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