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So much for Madame Stepniak, and her account of her lodger's simple existence: one which furnishes us no little insight into the process and progress of that inner impetus towards a career so far from his inherited position: a yearning, from which he had suffered acutely up to the time of his sudden freedom.
To cook a dish somewhat better than ordinary for "the poor young gentleman's dinner;" to exert her interest with those who remembered her husband, or loved her for her own sake and his, in order to procure scarce vegetables, or something which her simplicity supposed might tempt her lodger's appetite, was a labour in which she delighted, although she anxiously concealed it from the person who was its object.
"That I'm sure they do, sir" she spoke heartily, sincerely. Doctors had always treated her most kindly, and even generously. And then, having laid the cloth, and put the lodger's one hot dish upon it, she went towards the door. "Wouldn't you like me to bring up another scuttleful of coals, sir? it's bitterly cold getting colder every minute.
He came and listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and foiled the spy by keeping silent.
She was beginning to feel better. "But still, I do agree, Bunting, that Daisy's well enough. And she seems more willing, too." "I say, we mustn't forget the lodger's dinner," Bunting spoke uneasily. "It's a bit of fish to-day, isn't it? Hadn't I better just tell Daisy to see to it, and then I can take it up to him, as you're not feeling quite the thing, Ellen?"
Under other circumstances, D'Harmental would have sent the impertinent adviser to the devil, but reflecting that any ill-feeling on the lodger's part would injure his own reputation with Madame Denis, and that he was playing too heavy a game to risk being recognized, and not to submit philosophically to all the inconveniences of the new position which he had adopted, instead of setting himself in opposition to the rules established without doubt between Madame Denis and her lodgers, he obeyed the intimation, forgetting in what manner that intimation had been given him.
Between them Mary Simpson was tenderly lifted, and carried upstairs and laid on the bed of a lodger's room there. The cradle was brought up and put beside it, and then Jane Haden took her seat by the bed, one woman went for the doctor, while the others prepared the room below.
Being so much hurried, and you not arrived, it was necessary to do something. It fortunately occurred to me, that if I gave it him myself I could be of no further use. I should have been blown upon immediately. 'Mr Nadgett, you are a jewel, said Montague, patting him on the back. 'What's your lodger's name? 'Pinch, sir. Thomas Pinch.
I don't know how far one may go with landladies, but I hardly think one could ask them to repaper walls to each stray lodger's liking." Miss Bathgate had not so far shown herself much inclined for conversation.
"I don't know I don't know at all," he answered, as though eager to assert the truth of a statement never called into dispute. "Does he intend to come back to Fornside to-night, Sim?" "So he said." "What, think you, is his work at Gaskarth?" "I don't know I know nothing at least no, nothing." Ralph was sure now. Sim was too eager to disclaim all knowledge of his lodger's doings.
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