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Theydon was reading these discreet but exceedingly well-informed sentences with much care, when he noticed that Bates had closed the sitting-room door before beginning to arrange the contents of the tray on the table. Such an unusual action meant something. "Well, what is it now?" he inquired, lifting his eyes to the manservant's impassive face.
Your father is just the sort to outrage all family sentiment, and defy public opinion." "You don't think that!" she cried, turning around on him very suddenly, with a terrified look in her eyes. They were interrupted by a tap at the door. "A gentleman to see you, sir; at least, sir, to see Mr. Dick." The manservant's manner was halting and embarrassed. "What does he want with Mr. Dick?"
Martin's father looked down at Martin's wife, and his mother at the boy from whom she had been taken when his eager eyes came up to the level of her pillow. And there was much tenderness on both their faces. Martin caught the manservant's eyes. "Don't wait," he said. "We'll look after ourselves." Presently Joan gave a little laugh. "Please have something yourself. You're better than a footman.
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
He seemed to be coming away from the house." Charles Verity turned sideways to the table, bending down a little over the tray as he helped him. The coffee splashed over into the saucer; yet it was not the hand holding the coffee-pot, but those holding the tray that shook. Whereupon Charles Verity glanced up into the manservant's face, calmly arrogant. "Pray be careful, Hordle," he said.
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