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"Not much of the Widow Hullins touch about this!" he reflected privately. And he wished that all rent-collecting might be done with such ease, and amid such surroundings, as this particular piece of rent-collecting. He saw what a fine thing it was to be a free man, under orders from nobody; not many men in Bursley were in a position to accept invitations to four o'clock tea at a day's notice.
He undertook some rent-collecting, and some evening lectures on elementary science to boys and men. But after a while he began to feel his position false and unsatisfactory. In truth, his opinions were in the main identical with those of the vicar under whom he was acting. But Mr.
Then the voices in the corridor ceased, and with a decisive movement he unlatched the door. She relinquished the book and calmly sat down as he entered. "Of course, your mother's told you?" "Yes." "I had no difficulty at all. I just asked her what she was going to do about the rent-collecting." Standing up in front of Hilda, but on his own side of the desk, Mr.
I may be a simpleton, but I'm not such a simpleton as he thinks for, nor as some other folks think for, either!" He came here o' purpose to get that rent-collecting. Well, he's got it, and he's welcome to it, for I doubt not he'll do it a sight better than poor Mr. Skellorn! But he needn't hug himself that he's been too clever for me, because he hasn't.
James repeated in the secret hollows of his mind. It was not spacious; it was simply fantastic. They stood, those two Mrs. Prockter in her usual flowered silk, and James in his usual hard, rent-collecting clothes at the foot of the double staircase, which sprang with the light of elegance of wings from the floor of the entrance-hall of Wilbraham Hall.
He was indefinitely older than herself; and she felt like a child, out of place in the easy-chair. "I suppose it's about the rent-collecting?" he pursued. "Yes it is," she answered, astonished that he could thus divine her purpose. "I mean " "What does your mother want to do?" "Oh!" said Hilda, speaking low. "It's not mother. I've come to consult you myself. Mother doesn't know.
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