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This silence was only too significant to Pennyloaf, and in a moment she exclaimed with querulous energy: 'I know what'll be the bend of it! I'll go an' do like mother does I will! I will! I'll put my ring away, an' I'll go an' sit all night in the public-'ouse! It's what all the others does, an' I'll do the same. I often feel I'm a fool to go on like this.
Pennyloaf still screamed, till at length the door was thrown open and their neighbour, Mrs. Griffin, showed herself. 'Well, I never! she cried, wrathfully, rushing upon Bob. 'Now you just stop that, young man! I thought it 'ud be comin' to this before long. I saw you was goin' that way. The mildness of her expressions was partly a personal characteristic, partly due to Mrs.
Pennyloaf has to be dragged up from under the seat, and all her indignation cannot free her from the jovial embrace of a man who insists that there is plenty of room on his knee. Off we go! It is a long third-class coach, and already five or six musical instruments have struck up.
'Give it some of the mixture, then. Be sharp and put the light out. Pennyloaf obeyed the second injunction, and she too lay down, keeping the child in her arms; of the 'mixture' she was afraid, for a few days since the child of a neighbour had died in consequence of an overdose of this same anodyne. For a long time there was silence in the room.
'You don't mean that, Bob? murmured Pennyloaf. 'Of course I do. And let me catch you disobeying me! I should think you might find better friends than a girl as used to be the Peckovers' dirty little servant. Bob turned up his nose and sniffed the air. And Pennyloaf, in spite of the keenest distress, actually felt that there was something in the objection, thus framed!
At present he was in no mood for conversation; to Pennyloaf's remarks and questions he gave not the slightest heed, but in a few minutes tumbled himself into bed. 'Get that light put out, he exclaimed, after lying still for a while. Pennyloaf said she was uneasy about the child; its cough seemed to be better, but it moved about restlessly and showed no sign of getting to sleep.
It's a public-house pewter see? A flash of intelligence shot across Bob's face. When Pennyloaf returned she found her husband with his box of moulds and medals on the table. He was turning over its contents, meditatively.
That fierce kick, making ruin of your rotten barrier, is dealt with the whole force of Law, of Society; you might as well think of resisting death when your hour shall come. 'There he is, observed one of the men, calmly. 'Hollo! what's up? 'You can't take him away! Pennyloaf cried, falling down again by Bob and clinging to him. 'He's ill, You can't take him like this! 'Ill, is he?
The questions addressed to her she could not answer with any intelligence; several times she asked stupidly, 'Is she really dead? There was nothing to wonder at, however; the doctor glanced at the paper on which he had written prescriptions twice or thrice during the past few weeks, and found the event natural enough. . . . Towards the close of the afternoon Pennyloaf was in Hanover Street.
From this exchange of pleasantries the talk passed to various subjects the affairs of Jack Bartley and his precious wife, changes in Clerkenwell Close, then to Clem's own circumstances; she threw out hints of brilliant things in store for her. 'Do you come here often? she asked at length. 'Can't say I do. 'Thought p'r'aps you brought Mrs. Pennyloaf. When'll you be here again?
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