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If she had been wearing a small hat she would have been Frenchified." But Mrs. Pettifer was not in a mood for argument. "Can't you see what it all means?" she cried in exasperation. "I can. I do," Mr. Hazlewood retorted and he smiled proudly upon his sister. "The boy's better nature is awakening." Margaret Pettifer lifted up her hands. "The boy!" she exclaimed. "He's thirty-four if he's a day."
"You don't exhaust the possibilities, Robert," he said. "I can quite well refuse my consent and publicly refuse it if there are reasonable grounds for believing that there was in that trial a grave miscarriage of justice." Mr. Pettifer looked sharply at his companion. The voice no less than the words fixed his attention. This was not the Mr. Hazlewood of yesterday.
Thresk since you were in Bombay"; and he looked up at the ceiling and joined the tips of his fingers, his whole attitude a confident question: "Answer that if you can." Thresk turned patiently round. "Hasn't it occurred to you, Mr. Hazlewood, that it is still more strange that the prosecution did not at once approach me?" "Yes," said Pettifer suddenly.
He said, they trusted to his word, and he was glad of it, and at rest in his mind; but there was no proof, and the money must remain as it was. All were very earnest over this; and earnestness in men, when they are right and true, is so impressive, that Mr. Pettifer deserted his cookery and looked on quite moved.
As to her features, there was not much to criticize in them, for she had little nose, less lip, and no eyebrow; and as to her intellect, her friend Mrs. Pettifer often said: 'She didn't know a more sensible person to talk to than Mary Linnet.
Therefore I hope very sincerely that these reports which I am now going to read will enable me to go boldly to Harold Hazlewood and say: 'Stella Ballantyne is as guiltless of this crime as you or I." Mr. Pettifer took up the big envelope which he had placed on the table beside him and carried it away to his study. On the Saturday morning Mr. Hazlewood drove over early to Great Beeding.
Pettifer said no more, but hurried away from the window, and was soon at the door with a light in her hand. 'Come in, my poor dear, come in, said the good woman in a tremulous voice, drawing Janet within the door. 'Come into my warm bed, and may God in heaven save and comfort you. The pitying eyes, the tender voice, the warm touch, caused a rush of new feeling in Janet.
Let us see what I do remember." Pettifer took a chair and sat for a few moments with his forehead wrinkled in a frown. Was he really trying to remember? His wife asked herself that question as she watched him. Or had he something to tell them which he meant to let fall in his own cautiously careless way? Mrs. Pettifer listened alertly.
Only a week ago Dick himself had observed that sentimental philosophers had a knack of breaking their heads against their own theories. The words had been justified sooner than she had expected. Mrs. Pettifer was not surprised at Harold Hazlewood's swift change any more than her husband had been.
The very last time I called on her she said, "Have you been to see my poor daughter?" and burst into tears. 'Pride or no pride, said Mrs. Pettifer, 'I shall always stand up for Janet Dempster. She sat up with me night after night when I had that attack of rheumatic fever six years ago. There's great excuses for her.
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