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He walked away from the garden with Offitt, and turned down a filthy alley to a squalid tenement house, called by its proprietor Perry Place, and by the neighbors Rook's Ranch, to the lodge-room of the Brotherhood of Bread-winners, which proved to be Offitt's lodging.
It so happened that the Rook was just starting off for his morning constitutional, and as he finished his round, and then swept slowly across the meadow below, very deliberately flapping his great dusky wings, he came in sight of the lime-tree on which the Robin was perched. Out flew the Robin, and then back again to attract the Rook's attention.
That helpful friend had surely the first claim to know why she had failed to keep her engagement with Sir Jervis Redwood. After mentioning the telegram which had followed Mrs. Rook's arrival at the school, Emily's letter proceeded in these terms: "As soon as I had in some degree recovered myself, I informed Mrs. Rook of my aunt's serious illness.
Reporting this expression of medical opinion, Mrs. Rook's letter glided imperceptibly from respectful sympathy to modest regard for her own interests in the future. It might be the sad fate of her husband and herself to be thrown on the world again.
Emily stepped aside for a minute to give some directions about her luggage. In that interval Mrs. Rook's cunning little eyes turned on Alban with an expression of malicious scrutiny. "You were walking the other way," she whispered, "when I met you." She stopped, and glanced over her shoulder at Emily. "I see what attraction has brought you back to the school.
Happily for herself, Alban's influence had not been without its effect, after his departure. She had written kindly but she had written briefly at the same time. Mrs. Rook's reply presented a nicely compounded mixture of gratitude and grief. The gratitude was addressed to Emily as a matter of course. The grief related to her "excellent master." Sir Jervis's strength had suddenly failed.
On the solution hangs the rook's fate in an increasingly practical age, which may at any moment put sentiment on one side and decree for it the fate that is already overtaking its big cousin the raven.
Greedy admiration suddenly opened Mrs. Rook's little eyes to their utmost width. "My heart alive, miss, what do I see at your watch-chain? How they sparkle! Might I ask for a closer view?" Emily's fingers trembled; but she succeeded in detaching the locket from the chain. Alban handed it to Mrs. Rook. She began by admiring the diamonds with a certain reserve.
"Ah! zur, I'd climb with any bragger in this ship for a rook's nest, where I ha' got a safe bough to stand upon; but to dance upon this here see-sawing line, and to call it a horse, too, ben't Christian loike." But his troubles were soon to cease. He was made a waister, and, at furling sails stationed on the main yard. I will anticipate a little that we may have done with him.
Then he won the exchange, regained his position, and began to press her hard. Elfride grew flurried, and placed her queen on his remaining rook's file. 'There how stupid! Upon my word, I did not see your rook. Of course nobody but a fool would have put a queen there knowingly! She spoke excitedly, half expecting her antagonist to give her back the move.
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