purkis

Updated: May 12, 2025

'Surely, sir, it's never so! said Mrs. Purkis, turning to Mr. Bell for confirmation of the sad suspicion that now entered her mind. 'There was a gentleman here in the spring it might have been as long ago as last winter who told us a deal of Mr. Hale and Miss Margaret; and he said Mrs. Hale was gone, poor lady. But never a word of the Vicar's being ailing! 'It is so, however, said Mr. Bell.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South