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Updated: June 29, 2025
They've got off clean, and there's an end. Only," he added, "I'm glad I trod on Master Pew's corns;" for by this time he had heard my story.
I knowed he was dead years ago, but I never let on. So when I says he goes to our church, she says: "What regular?" "Yes regular. His pew's right over opposite ourn on t'other side the pulpit." "I thought he lived in London?" "Well, he does. Where WOULD he live?" "But I thought YOU lived in Sheffield?" I see I was up a stump.
But now she came to sit under him every Sunday; and he could have wished her absent; for she diverted his thoughts from piety to the selections of texts applicable in the case of a woman who sat with arms knotted, and the frown of an intemperate schoolgirl forbidden speech; while her pew's firelight startlingly at intervals danced her sinister person into view, as from below.
I was horribly indignant with you as, indeed, I am still for not having told me anything about it; but directly I got home I telegraphed to Polly Cobb, as the best-natured girl I knew at Mauleverer, asking where you were, and why you had left. I had such a letter from her next day spelling bad, but full of kind feeling giving me a full account of the row, and old Pew's detestable conduct.
However faint became the memory of youthful joys in after years, the flavour of Miss Pew's jalap and senna was never obliterated. 'No; there's nobody ill this morning, answered Miss Pillby, with a faint groan.
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