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"You wish," she said, "to ask some questions about our pupil Jane Wood?" "I do indeed. I am very much surprised to hear that she has left you." "May I ask whether you have any authority from our friend Mrs. Rumbold to inquire?" "Mrs. Rumbold takes her authority from me," said Hubert quietly.
Andrew Westwood's little girl was still sitting on the chair where she had been placed, her hands crossed before her on her lap, her bare feet swinging idly to and fro, her dark eyes fixed vaguely on the trees and shrubs of the Rectory garden, which she could see from the hall window. Hubert paused beside her and spoke. "I am going to leave you with this lady Mrs. Rumbold," he said.
He ought to have come to the place before and made inquiries, not left her fate to the light words of Mrs. Rumbold or some unknown Sister Louisa. He had made himself responsible for her education; was he not in some sort responsible for her happiness as well?
Under his administration, the Rhine has been passed to seize the Duc d'Enghien, and the Elbe to capture Sir George Rumbold; the Hanse Towns have been pillaged, and even Emden blockaded; and the representations against, all these outrages have neither been followed by public reparation nor a becoming resentment; and was it not also Baron von Hardenberg, who, on the 5th of April, 1795, concluded at Basle that treaty to which we owe all our conquests and Germany and Italy all their disasters?
A violent erection of the hanged sends gouts of sperm spouting through his deathclothes on to the cobblestones. RUMBOLD: I'm near it myself. Ten shillings a time. As applied to Her Royal Highness. God save the king! On coronation day, on coronation day, O, won't we have a merry time, Drinking whisky, beer and wine! PRIVATE CARR: Here. What are you saying about my king? Nothing.
"Pig ain't civil, and you ain't sober. You go indoors and lemme go on unpacking. You you're excited." "D'you mean !" Mr. Polly was foiled. He perceived an immense solidity about Rumbold. "Get back to your shop and lemme get on with my business," said Mr. Rumbold. "Stop calling me pigs. See? Sweep your pavemint." "I came here to make a civil request." "You came 'ere to make a row.
He had an instinctive understanding of the suffering that the child would endure if she were not in kindly hands; and he did not think that the atmosphere of a large semi-public institution would be favorable to her future welfare. Mrs. Rumbold looked at him in open-eyed perplexity. "But, Mr. Lepel, what do you want?"
"You think so, sir?" "The Sisters are good women," said Mr. Rumbold. "They love the children and train them well. I have twice sent orphans from this village to their care, and in each case I believe that there could not have been a happier result." "You'll be charmed if you go over the house at Winstead, Mr. Lepel," said Mrs. Rumbold coaxingly. "Do go over and see yourself what it is like.
On this occasion, unready as usual with a response, he crossed his legs one over the other, cleared his throat, and had just prepared to utter the words, "We did indeed, my dear," when Mrs. Rumbold was off again. "Some neighbors took care of her before the trial," she said confidentially. "Indeed we paid them a small sum for doing so, Mr.
"I should not have thought of a gentleman like you, one of your family, troubling himself about a ragged miserable child like this little Westwood girl. I'm sure she ought to be eternally grateful to you all!" "Oh, by-the-bye," said Hubert, turning round as he was nearing the door, "you have reminded me of something that I may as well mention now, Mrs. Rumbold!
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