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Sir James Clubley therefore returned in a state of dejection to the sympathetic Miss Lillycrop, who gave him a note of introduction to a detective the grave man in grey, a particular friend and ally of her own, with whom she had scraped acquaintance during one of her many pilgrimages of love and mercy among the poor. To the man in grey Sir James committed his case, and left him to work it out.
A dealer in oils and stores of a miscellaneous and unsavoury kind occupied the basement. George Aspel at once suspected and made for this point, followed by Miss Lillycrop, who bade Tottie remain in her kitchen, with the intention of keeping her at once out of danger and out of the way.
"Well, I can't exactly tell you that," returned Miss Lillycrop, "but I can tell you that he has had a rise in the Post-Office Savings Bank, with an increase of salary, and that May declines to marry Aspel unless he agrees to live with her mother in the cottage at Nottinghill.
There are always sure to be a few mis-sorts, even in our well-regulated family that is, letters sorted to the wrong sections or divisions. Forty mis-sorts in the five hundred is considered very bad work." "But what if a sorter does not happen to know the division to which any particular letter belongs?" asked Miss Lillycrop.
"Don't you think it's a sort of of unavoidable necessity?" suggested Miss Lillycrop, with a faint smile. "Not at all, my dear, not at all. I have avoided it. So have you. If I had my way, I'd put a stop to marriage altogether, and bring this miserable world to an abrupt close. But little Bones is no difficulty: we'll take her along with us." "But, dear Maria "
And it will make you open your eyes when you see a room with three miles of shelving, on which are ranged twenty-two thousand battery-jars." "My dear," said Miss Lillycrop, with a mild smile, "you will no doubt wonder at my ignorance, but I don't understand what you mean by a battery-jar." "It is a jar, cousin, which contains the substances which produce electricity."
There's a revolver in that drawer beside you" Miss Lillycrop shrank from the drawer in question "but I would only use it in the last extremity, for I am not fond of taking human life. Indeed, I would decline to do so even to save my own, but I should have no objection to maim.
"Stop! pray, sir, stop!" exclaimed Miss Lillycrop, pressing her hand to her forehead; "I am lost in admiration of your amazing memory, but I I have no head for figures. Indeed, what I have already heard and seen in this place has produced such confusion in my poor brain that I cannot perceive any difference whatever between millions, billions, and trillions!"
Miss Maylands, the circumstances are entirely altered now besides," he added with a sudden change of tone and manner, "that inexorable man-made demon, Business, calls me to London." "I hope Business intends to keep you here," said Miss Lillycrop, busying herself at the tea-table. "That remains to be seen," returned Aspel. "If I find that "
"Well, well," rejoined Miss Lillycrop, dipping the sugar-spoon into the slop-bowl in her abstraction, "this world and its affairs is to me a standing miracle.
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