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Max came and put his head on her knee, to be petted, and Lois's thoughts wandered off to the dinner party, and Mr.
Lois's face relaxed suddenly with an effect of sunshine breaking through a cloud. "Did he say that?" she exclaimed. "He did, and more. He is a young man of some discernment," observed the old fellow, with a chuckle of gratification. "Oh, but he was only blinding you. He is in love with Mrs. Lancaster." "Not he." But Lois protested guilefully that he was.
The angel smiled assent; and on the wings of that smile my whisper fluttered over the earth. It brooded in a thousand homes else miserable. Light was where before was chaos. Sunshine drove scrofula from ten thousand quivering frames, and millions of infant lips would this day raise Lois's name and mine in their Kindergarten songs, did they only know who were their benefactors.
Lois perceived this, and grieved over it; Nattee perceived it, and was indignant at it, long before Faith slowly acknowledged it to herself, and went to Nattee the Indian woman, rather than to Lois her cousin, for sympathy and counsel. 'He cares not for me, said Faith. 'He cares more for Lois's little finger than for my whole body, the girl moaned out in the bitter pain of jealousy.
Sometimes he was gloomy and silent, but generally he told her of all that had happened in the mill, particularly any little word of notice or praise he might have received, watching her anxiously until she laughed at it, and then rubbing his hands cheerfully. He need not have doubted Lois's faith in him.
After the roar of the tram died he heard the trotting of the omnibus horses and Lois's nervous giggle. She tried, and did not fail, to be jaunty; but she had had a shock, and the proof was that by mere inadvertence she nearly charged the posts of the next street-refuge.... George switched off the current. She herself had shown him how to do it. She now saw him do it.
"Miss Herne is beautiful, let me congratulate you in Western fashion." The old man did not hide his sneer. Holmes bowed. "I thank you, for her." Lois held the candle to light the Doctor out of the long passages. "Yoh hevn't seen Barney out 't Mr. Howth's, Doctor? He's ther' now." "No. When shall you have done waiting on this man, Lois? God help you, child!" Lois's quick instinct answered,
She proposed a surprise. She spoke of Keith and noticed the increased interest with which the girl listened. This was promising. "By the way," she said, "you know the report is that Mr. Keith has at last really surrendered?" "Has he? I am so glad. If ever a man deserved happiness it is he. Who is it?" The entire absence of self-consciousness in Lois's expression and voice surprised Mrs. Nailor.
Blood is thicker than water. Write to him as soon as I am gone for Lois, I am going and I bless the Lord that has letten me join my husband again so soon. Such was the selfishness of conjugal love; she thought little of Lois's desolation in comparison with her rejoicing over her speedy reunion with her dead husband!
It's a bad life, Joe Yare's; I wish 'n' 't would be better to the end" He stopped with a wistful look at Holmes, who stood outwardly attentive, but with little thought to waste on Joe Yare. The old coal-digger drummed on the fire-plug uneasily. "Myself, 't was for Lois's sake I thowt on it. To speak plain, yoh'll mind that Stokes affair, th' note Yare brought? Yes?
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