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Miss Lillycrop saw it, shrieked, sprang to get out of its way, fell, and sprained her ankle! There was a rush of sorters, letter-carriers, boy-sorters, and messengers; the snake was captured, and Miss Lillycrop was tenderly borne from the General Post-Office in a state of mental amazement and physical collapse.
"Did you hear THAT, dear?" she asked, in a low whisper. "Of course I did," replied Miss Stivergill aloud. "Hush! listen." They listened and heard "that" again. There could be no doubt about it a curious scratching sound at the dining-room window immediately below theirs. "Rats," said Miss Stivergill in a low voice. "Oh! I do hope so," whispered Miss Lillycrop.
Of course, I can't get her all to myself," continued Miss Lillycrop with a sigh, "for her mother, who is a washer-woman, won't part with her, but she has agreed to come and work for me every morning for a few hours, and I can get her now and then of an evening. My chief regret is that the poor thing has a long long way to walk from her miserable home to reach me.
The child expressed anxiety, and tried to comfort her. "Come what's the use o' strivin' against it?" she exclaimed suddenly. "She's sure to come to know it in the end, and I need advice from some one if it was even from a child." Tottie listened with suspense and some anxiety. "You've often told me, mother, that the best advice comes from God. So has Miss Lillycrop."
To have been born for this one burst, and died, would have been better than never to have been born at all, in the estimation of the enthusiastic Peter Pax! A few minutes after George Aspel had borne the fainting Miss Lillycrop from the house the engine arrived. Some of the men swarmed into the house, and dived to the basement, as if fire and smoke were their natural food.
Any friend of mine will be welcome; besides, I half expect to find your sister there, and we shall be sure to see Miss Lillycrop and my sweet little cousin Tottie, who has been promoted to the condition of ladies'-maid and companion." "Ah, poor Tottie!" said Phil, "her father's illness has told heavily on her."
If there is any change in your condition it can only be an access of the malady. Besides, there is no particular cause for joy in that. Have you no more interesting news to give me?" "More interesting news!" echoed Miss Lillycrop, sitting down on her bonnet, "of course I have.
"Did you see Miss Lillycrop, Dollops?" asked Solomon, as the child emerged from some sort of back kitchen. "Yes, sir, I did; I saw'd 'er a-goin' hout." "Did you hear her leave a message?" "Yes, sir, I did.
"It is very strange," continued Miss Lillycrop, giving a few hasty touches to her cap and hair; "and do you know, I could not help thinking that there was something queer about his appearance? I can scarce tell what it was. It seemed to me like like but it is disagreeable even to think about such things in connection with one who is such a fine, clever, gentlemanly fellow but "
Now, you know" here he stopped and assumed an impressive explanatory tone "you couldn't expect any single man to sort the letters for every town and village in the kingdom could you, ma'am?" Miss Lillycrop admitted that she could not indulge such an expectation, and further expressed her belief that any man who could must be little better than a lunatic.
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