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Christopher boldly demanded the price of a small wedding cake elaborately iced. It was five shillings. He put down the money with a lofty air and desired them to send it without loss of time to Mrs. Sartin's address. The woman stared a little at the oddly assorted couple, but the money rang true and the order was booked.
Eliza Lowden, she was goin' to dress her, but she can't set a wig as I can." "What a nuisance. But, anyhow, Jessie isn't engaged, is she?" For an instant he had a glimpse of Mrs. Sartin's full face, dubious, questioning, even hostile, but to him it was merely the result of flickering light and conveyed nothing.
Sartin's person had expanded in the last few years and her powers of expressing emotion seemed to have expanded with her person. Disappointment was writ large on her ample countenance. "Well, now, if that isn't a shame and a contrariwise of purpose. I've taken a job, Mr. Christopher, for that blessed afternoon. I've promised to dress Miss Asty, who is making a debût at a matiny at the Court.
Sartin as she came unsuspectingly down a winding stair, and bore her off breathless, remonstrating, but fluttering with pride, in a hansom. "I'm only up for a few days," he explained. "Sam dines with me to-morrow and I want you to come out somewhere in the afternoon. Crystal Palace, or wherever Jessie likes." Mrs. Sartin's face and Mrs.
His mother had never spoken to him of the past, never opened her lips as to the strange sacrifice she had made for her unborn child, except once when they were hurriedly leaving London by stealth, after the episode with Martha Sartin's rascally husband. Mrs. Hibbault had remarked wearily: "I wonder, Jim, shall I spend my life taking you out of the way of bad men?"
"She does not know him so well as we do, that's why." "I'll not stay here to be discussed," remarked Christopher decidedly, "you can pull my character to pieces when I'm away. When did you last see Mrs. Sartin, Patricia?" "Last Thursday. She comes to tea every week with Maria." Maria was Mrs. Sartin's second daughter, midway between Sam and Jim, and was just installed as second lady's-maid to Mrs.
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