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You see, Billy, I don't have to be so hard on the Northwicks, personally, because I regard them as a necessary part of the system. What would become of the laws and the courts if there were no rogues? We must have Northwicks. It's a pity that the Northwicks should have families; but I don't blame the Northwicks for providing against the evil day that Northwickism is sure to end in.
Can he feel that his skirts are quite clean, acting that way, as the family counsel of the Northwicks, after all he used to say against him?" Mr. Gerrish expressed his indifference by putting up a roll of muslin on the shelf while he rejoined, "I care very little for the opinions of Mr. Putney on any subject." In some places Mrs.
He was up early and late; he had no poetic loyalty to the Northwicks; but as nearly as he could explain his devotion, they had always treated him well, and he could not bear to see things run behind. Day after day went by, and week after week, and the sisters lived on in the solitude to which the compassion, the diffidence, or the contempt of their neighbors left them.
He bears the penalty of his misfortunes; but he is strong enough to bear it. Let him stand it! But there are others weaker, unhappier Mother! You haven't asked me yet about the Northwicks."
She listened with so keen a relish for the report of Putney's sayings that Annie felt as if she had been turning the affair into comedy for Lyra's amusement. "Oh dear, I wish I could hear him! I thought I should have died last night when he came back, and began to scare everybody blue with his highly personal remarks. I wish he'd had time to get round to the Northwicks."
Matt got over to Hatboro' the next day, and went to see Putney, who received him with some ironical politeness, when Matt said he had come hoping to be useful to his clients, the Miss Northwicks. "Well, we all hope something of that kind, Mr. Hilary. You were here on a mission of that kind before. But may I ask why you think I should believe you wish to be useful to them?" "Why?" "Yes.
It was in the close, stove-heated parlors of the respectable citizens, behind the windows that had so long commanded envious views of the Northwicks going by in their carriages and sledges, and among women of leisure and conscience, that his infamy endured, and that the injuries of his creditors cried out for vengeance on those daughters of his; they had always thought themselves too good to speak to other folks.
"I've just come from the Northwicks, and another crushing beauty has got in ahead of your phaeton." "Oh, poor Annie!" Lyra began to laugh with agreeable intelligence. "Do come in and tell me about it!" "Why is that girl going to take part in the theatricals? She doesn't care to please any one, does she?" "I didn't know that people took part in theatricals for that, Annie.
He was so strait an agnostic that, as he boasted, he had no superstitions even; but his relation to the Northwicks covered the period of his longest resistance of temptation, and by a sort of instinctive, brute impulse, he turned his step towards the place where they lived, as if there might be rescue for him in the mere vicinity of those women who had appealed to him in their distress, as to a faithful enemy.
She addressed herself more particularly to the Northwicks. "Coffee will be ready in a few moments. We've met with a little delay." "I'm afraid we must say good night at once," said Mr. Northwick. "We had arranged to have our friends and some other guests with us at home. And we're quite late now." Mrs. Munger protested. "Take our Juliet from us! Oh, Miss Northwick, how can I thank you enough?
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