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Whether there were any Lizzies in the early Christian Church must be considered very doubtful, very doubtful. Miss Peecher was exceedingly sage here. 'Speaking correctly, we say, then, that Hexam's sister is called Lizzie; not that she is named so. Do we not, Mary Anne? 'We do, Miss Peecher.
The vigilant watchman, using his daily opportunities of turning his eyes in Bradley's direction, soon apprized Miss Peecher that Bradley was more preoccupied than had been his wont, and more given to strolling about with a downcast and reserved face, turning something difficult in his mind that was not in the scholastic syllabus.
'I wonder, said Miss Peecher, as she sat making up her weekly report on a half-holiday afternoon, 'what they call Hexam's sister? Mary Anne, at her needlework, attendant and attentive, held her arm up. 'Well, Mary Anne? 'She is named Lizzie, ma'am. 'She can hardly be named Lizzie, I think, Mary Anne, returned Miss Peecher, in a tunefully instructive voice.
'Good-night, Mr Headstone, said the Mistress. The pupil had been, in her state of pupilage, so imbued with the class-custom of stretching out an arm, as if to hail a cab or omnibus, whenever she found she had an observation on hand to offer to Miss Peecher, that she often did it in their domestic relations; and she did it now. 'Well, Mary Anne? said Miss Peecher.
It was evening, and Bradley was walking in his garden observed from behind a blind by gentle little Miss Peecher, who contemplated offering him a loan of her smelling salts for headache, when Mary Anne, in faithful attendance, held up her arm. 'Yes, Mary Anne? 'Young Mr Hexam, if you please, ma'am, coming to see Mr Headstone. 'Very good, Mary Anne. Again Mary Anne held up her arm.
And Mental Arithmetic, administered by Miss Peecher, often devoted itself to providing Bradley Headstone with a wardrobe of fabulous extent: fourscore and four neck-ties at two and ninepence-halfpenny, two gross of silver watches at four pounds fifteen and sixpence, seventy-four black hats at eighteen shillings; and many similar superfluities.
'Oh! said Miss Peecher, pondering on it; but smoothly added, in a confirmatory tone, 'At an outfitter's in the City. Ye-es? 'And Charley Mary Anne was proceeding, when Miss Peecher stared. 'I mean Hexam, Miss Peecher. 'I should think you did, Mary Anne. I am glad to hear you do. And Hexam
'For the purpose, I would advise Not Miss Peecher, Bradley Headstone struck in with a recurrence of his late decision of manner. 'Would you be so kind as to think of it for me, Mr Headstone? 'Yes, Hexam, yes. I'll think of it. I'll think maturely of it. I'll think well of it. Their walk was almost a silent one afterwards, until it ended at the school-house.
In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. It was very soon after his interview with the Secretary, that he and Charley Hexam set out one leaden evening, not unnoticed by Miss Peecher, to have this desperate interview accomplished. 'That dolls' dressmaker, said Bradley, 'is favourable neither to me nor to you, Hexam.
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