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He had just finished the delivery of a long grace, into which he had thrown much unction, and Louie's manners made but an ill-fitting Amen. 'It's nasty! said the child passionately. 'It's allus porridge porridge porridge porridge an I hate it an it's bitter an it's a shame! I wish I wor at Wigson's 'at I do! Davy glanced up at his sister under his eyebrows.
It had grown on them in their efforts to carry off the embarrassment of appearing as an eternal trio. Auntie Louie carried it off best. Sharp and rigid, Auntie Louie's figure never lent itself to any group. But for her black gown she really might not have belonged. Mrs.
Louie's chest heaved. 'Because she won't do what I tell her, she said fiercely. 'What am I to do with her when she grows up? Who'll ever look at her twice? She scowled at the child who had taken refuge on David's knee, then with a sudden change of expression she held out her arms, and said imperiously: 'Give her to me.
Minna and Louie's virtues, husbands, and houses were often extolled now, and there was nothing to extol in her. Henrietta felt this continually. Her parents did not speak to her of her misfortunes; she was left alone, which is perhaps what most girls would have liked best. Not so Henrietta. The three years after Louie's marriage were the most miserable of Henrietta's life.
Towards midnight, when all was still, he opened the locked drawer which held for him the few things which symbolised and summed up his past a portrait of Lucy, by the river under the trees, taken by a travelling photographer, not more than six weeks before her death a little collection of pictures of Sandy from babyhood onwards Louie's breviary his father's dying letter a book which had belonged to Ancrum, his vanished friend.
When the girl rode nearer to them, merely surprised and curious at first, they snorted and showed the whites of their eyes and shied back nervously. Something chill clutched at Barbara's heart while she spoke pre-emptorily to Ragtime, who was dancing in sympathetic panic. There was nothing to tell her, but she knew that these were Big Louie's horses.
But as he looked up and saw the portraits of the girl's grandfathers, where they appeared to be looking down at him stern and questioning, a guilty shame over the wrong he was doing their child smote him sorely: he saw that he had allowed the one instant of choice to slip away; the sense came over him that he had sealed his own doom, while a vision of Louie's face, full of desolation and horror, was scorching in upon his soul; and there, in the moment of betrothal, his punishment began.
At last he went to his door, pulled it gently open, and with bare feet went across to Louie's room, which he entered with infinite caution. The moonlight was streaming in on the poor gauds, which lay wildly scattered over the floor. David looked at them with amazement. Amongst them he saw something glittering.
'I told yo so afore I woan't cry for 'im. But as long as Louie's here, an I ha to keep her, I'll want that money, an every penny on't. If it bean't paid, she may go too! 'Yo'd not turn her out, Hannah? cried Reuben, instinctively putting out an arm to feel that the door was closed. 'She'd not want for a livin, replied Hannah, with a bitter sneer; 'she's her mither's child.
Meanwhile Montjoie was standing against an iron pillar, studying intently every detail of Louie's pose, both hands arched over his jeyes. 'Peste! did one ever see so many points combined? he threw back to a couple of men behind him. 'Too thin the arms might be better and the hands a little common. But for the ensemble mon Dieu! we should make Carpeaux's atelier look alive hein?
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