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'He's aye doon i' the mooth when he comes here, Liz, said the mother, with a passing touch of spirit. 'We're ower puir folk for my lord noo that he's gettin' among the gentry. 'The gentry of Argyle Street an' the Sautmarket, mother? asked Walter dryly. 'They'll no' do much for ye. 'Is Skinny no' gaun to raise yer screw, Wat? asked Liz. 'It's high time he was thinkin' on't.
"Come now," said this personage, "this won't do! Move on!" Liz smiled faintly and apologetically. "All right!" she answered, striving to speak cheerfully, and raising her eyes to the policeman's good-natured countenance. "I didn't mean to fall asleep here. I don't know how I came to do it. I must go home, of course."
She wished she knew how much or how little George Fordyce was to Gladys Graham, yet dared not to ask the question. But so great was the absorbing desire of Gladys to find means of communication with Liz that she would not let the matter rest.
Mavis gathered from these remarks that a mother had been delivered of a child during Mrs Gowler's brief sojourn upstairs. The latter confirmed this surmise by saying a little later, when she issued from the kitchen drying her hands and bared arms on a towel: "The worst of these here nursing 'omes is that yer never knows when you're going to be on the job. I didn't expect Liz till termorrer."
It keeps body an' soul thegither eh, Liz? 'Nae mair, said Liz abstractedly, again absorbed in her paper. 'But maybe oor shot 'll come. Gladys rose to her feet, suddenly conscious that she had made a very long visit. Her heart was heavier than when she came. More and more was the terrible realism of city life borne in upon her troubled soul. 'I'm afraid I must go away, she said very quietly.
'I say, Miss Gladys, hae ye noticed onything aboot Liz this day or twa? she queried anxiously. 'Nothing, replied Gladys blithely, 'except that she looks more and more like a new creature. Have you noticed anything?
She had been there four times, and knew all the nurses and nearly all the doctors. "Liz" had been known, in a shortage of nurses, to be called into the mysterious room down the hall to assist; and on those occasions, in an all-enveloping white gown over her wrapper, with her hair under a cap, she outranked the queen herself in regalness and authority.
I took the cover off the stove and the fire flashed out and showed me his face just as plain!" "You've been dreaming," said Laura, slowly. "Git out!" ejaculated Liz, with emphasis. "I never fell asleep yet washin' greasy dishes no, Ma'am!" "Well!" "I know what it means," Liz said, solemnly. "Yes, I do." "What does it mean?" demanded Laura, doubtful whether to laugh or be serious.
Miss Conny was much too dignified to chase rabbits. "Stop, Master Teddy! stop!" cried Mary. "Come back, Miss Liz and Cissy come back at once!"
Brent managed to get along pretty well with everything but work, and in severing diplomatic relations with this he usually found himself persona non grata with Jane and her strongest ally, Miss Liz. For Jane, more than all of them, realized the blessings a railroad would bring to her people in that wild area beyond Snarly Knob.
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