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'I s'll be back in ten minutes, said the uncle. The car went on to the garage. Berry stood curiously at the top of the stone stairs that led from the highroad down to the level of the house, an old stone place. The garden was dilapidated. Broken fruit-trees leaned at a sharp angle down the steep bank.
He read the letter: "'And will you reply by Thursday whether you accept. Yours faithfully They want me, mother, at a hundred and twenty a year, and don't even ask to see me. Didn't I tell you I could do it! Think of me in London! And I can give you twenty pounds a year, mater. We s'll all be rolling in money." "We shall, my son," she answered sadly.
Again Dawes looked at him. "Since August she's been getting tired of me," Morel repeated. The two men were very quiet together. Paul suggested a game of draughts. They played in silence. "I s'll go abroad when my mother's dead," said Paul. "Abroad!" repeated Dawes. "Yes; I don't care what I do." They continued the game. Dawes was winning.
Nobody could wish for a better place. I'm sure I've no fault to find. But it's like as if what must be." "But what's the matter?" "Well, ma'am, it's Emmy." I s'll get my old house back, and be among 'em all. There's so many on 'em." Every sentence contained a lie.
They ought to have allowed us six times the quantity there's plenty of sugar, why didn't they? We s'll have to enjoy ourselves with what we've got. We mean to, anyhow." "Ay," he said. "Time we had a bit of enjoyment, THIS Christmas. They ought to have made things more plentiful." "Yes," he said, stuffing his package in his pocket. The war had killed the little market of the town.
"If I'd kep' myself to myself I shouldn't be bad now though I'm not very bad. I s'll be all right in the morning. But I did myself in when I went with another woman. I felt myself go as if the bile broke inside me, and I was sick." "Josephine seduced you?" laughed Lilly. "Ay, right enough," replied Aaron grimly. "She won't be coming here, will she?" "Not unless I ask her."
His eyes were dark and shining; there was a kind of fascination about him. When he went into the barn for his bicycle he found the front wheel punctured. "Fetch me a drop of water in a bowl," he said to her. "I shall be late, and then I s'll catch it." He lighted the hurricane lamp, took off his coat, turned up the bicycle, and set speedily to work.
Morel wanted to buy him a little sable brush that he hankered after. But this indulgence he refused. He stood in front of milliners' shops and drapers' shops almost bored, but content for her to be interested. They wandered on. "Now, just look at those black grapes!" she said. "They make your mouth water. I've wanted some of those for years, but I s'll have to wait a bit before I get them."
I believe you've got the flu." "Think I have?" said Aaron frightened. "Don't be scared," laughed Lilly. There was a long pause. Lilly stood at the window looking at the darkening market, beneath the street-lamps. "I s'll have to go to the hospital, if I have," came Aaron's voice. "No, if it's only going to be a week or a fortnight's business, you can stop here. I've nothing to do," said Lilly.
His whole face seemed suspended till he had put his lips there. It must be done. And the other people! At last he bent quickly forward and touched it with his lips. His moustache brushed the sensitive flesh. Clara shivered, drew away her arm. When all was over, the lights up, the people clapping, he came to himself and looked at his watch. His train was gone. "I s'll have to walk home!" he said.
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