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That night, as Stephen lay down to sleep, he said to himself, 'I'm glad Black Bess came to eat pikelets with Martha. My chapter says, "Whosoever shall do the commandments, and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Perhaps Martha and me will be called great in heaven, if we teach Bess how to do God's commandments.
Jerome herself could not deny that Janet was a very pretty-spoken woman: 'She aly's says, she niver gets sich pikelets' as mine nowhere; I know that very well other folks buy 'em at shops thick, unwholesome things, you might as well eat a sponge. The sight of little Lizzie often stirred in Janet's mind a sense of the childlessness which had made a fatal blank in her life.
'You know I always go in and read a chapter to mother at tea, child. 'I know you do. You're an angel, Miss Henschil patted the blue shoulder next her. 'Mother's Church of England now, she explained. 'But she'll have her Bible with her pikelets at tea every night like the Skinners. 'It was Naaman and Gehazi last Tuesday that gave me a clue.
"She's made the girls scrub and polish until there's nothing left for them to rub, and she's harried Hogg and Lee Wing until there isn't a leaf looking crooked in all the garden, and she and Murty have planned all about meeting you for the hundred and first time." "And she's planning to make pikelets for you!" put in Norah. "Bless her. I wouldn't wonder.
"My pore dears!" said Brownie, hastily supplying him with the largest scone in sight. "Now, Master Wally, my love, ain't you ready for another? Your appetite's not 'alf wot it used to be. A pikelet, now?" "I believe I've had six!" said Wally, defending himself. "An' wot used six pikelets to be to you? A mere fly in the ointment," said Brownie, whose similes were always apt to be peculiar.
The one noise in the Market Square was the bell of a hawker selling warm pikelets at a penny each for the high tea of the tradesmen. The hawker was a deathless institution, a living proof that withdrawn Turnhill would continue always to be exactly what it always had been.
Almost at the same moment a neat black-and-white parlourmaid brought in teapot, copper kettle, and a silver-covered dish containing hot pikelets; then departed. Clara was alone again; not the same Clara now, but a personage demure, prim, precise, frightfully upright of back a sort of impregnable stronghold without doubt a Deputy-Mayoress.
It was Saturday, and all over the Square little stalls, with yellow linen roofs, were being erected for the principal market of the week. In those barbaric days Bursley had a majestic edifice, black as basalt, for the sale of dead animals by the limb and rib it was entitled 'the Shambles' but vegetables, fruit, cheese, eggs, and pikelets were still sold under canvas.
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