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Pettifer could utter another word of dissuasion, leaving the good woman in considerable anxiety lest this new impulse of Janet's should frustrate all precautions to save her from a sudden shock. Janet having paid her visit in Butcher Lane, turned again into Orchard Street on her way to Mrs.
"That's an improvement on your last remark, Dick. It's true. And your father's going to break his head very badly unless you stop him." "How?" "Mrs. Ballantyne." All the flippancy died out of Dick Hazlewood's face. He became at once grave, wary. "I have been hearing about him," continued Mrs. Pettifer. "He has made friends with her a woman who has stood in the dock on a capital charge."
Her heart swelled, and she burst out suddenly, like a child, into loud passionate sobs. Mrs. Pettifer could not help crying with her, but she said, 'Come upstairs, my dear, come. Don't linger in the cold. She drew the poor sobbing thing gently up-stairs, and persuaded her to get into the warm bed. But it was long before Janet could lie down.
For all his appearance of ease he dreaded the encounter which was now begun. Pettifer he knew to be a shrewd man. He watched him methodically arranging his press-cuttings in front of him. Pettifer might well find some weak point in his story which he himself had not discovered; and whatever course he was minded afterwards to take, here and now he was determined once more to fight Stella's battle.
Pettifer's, but found, to her great disappointment, that her old friend was gone out for the day. So she wrote on a leaf of her pocket-book an urgent request that Mrs. Pettifer would come and stay with her while her mother was away; and, desiring the servant-girl to give it to her mistress as soon as she came home, walked on to the Vicarage to sit with Mrs.
So keen was his distress that he had no fear of his sister's sarcasms. "I think of it!" he exclaimed in a piteous bewilderment, "actually I have become sensitive to public opinion," and Mrs. Pettifer forbore from the comments which she very much longed to make. She was in the study when Harold Hazlewood was shown in, and Pettifer had bidden her to stay.
When a woman can't think of her husband coming home without trembling, it's enough to make her drink something to blunt her feelings and no children either, to keep her from it. You and me might do the same, if we were in her place. 'Speak for yourself, Mrs. Pettifer, said Miss Pratt. 'Under no circumstances can I imagine myself resorting to a practice so degrading.
Tom Pettifer, Ho, responded with alacrity, and in speedy course descended on the pier. "Afraid of a sun-stroke in England in November, Tom, that you wear your tropical hat, strongly paid outside and paper-lined inside, here?" said the captain, eyeing it. "It's as well to be on the safe side, sir," replied Tom. "Safe side!" repeated the captain, laughing.
No doubt that eminent authority, Professor Sylvanus Pettifer Possil, regards them as aerial hurricanes; but the more I see, the more I am constrained to regard Sylvanus Pettifer Possil as a silly vain asteroid." While Gazen was yet speaking we both became sensible of an unwonted stillness in the car. The machinery had ceased to vibrate.
For although I look upon Dick as a son I am not his father. You are, Hazlewood, you are. He wouldn't answer me." "Would he answer me?" asked Hazlewood. "I don't know him at all. I can't go to him and ask if he told the truth." "No, no, you can't do that," Pettifer answered, "nor do I mean you to.
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