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Updated: July 9, 2025
She was never quite properly dressed at the end of the day. Often her servant used to go before Sabine was ready: and a customer would ring the shop-bell. She would let him ring and call once or twice before she could make up her mind to get up from her chair. But she never minded. How could you be angry with such a pleasant creature who spoke so sweetly, and was never excited about anything!
A few days before it took place, Sir Harry Lorridaile and Lady Lorridaile, who was the Earl's only sister, actually came for a visit a thing which caused the greatest excitement in the village and set Mrs. Dibble's shop-bell tinkling madly again, because it was well known that Lady Lorridaile had only been to Dorincourt once since her marriage, thirty-five years before.
Before long there was a legend that he had been suffering from an acute attack of delirium tremens. The post-office, always the post-office. If he sat down at a meal the shop-bell clanged, and hope springing eternal, he hurried forth in readiness to make up a packet or concoct a mixture; but it was an old lady who held him in talk for ten minutes about rates of postage to South America.
She still responded, mechanically, to the frequent summons of the shop-bell, and, at the demand of her customers, went prying with vague eyes about the shop, proffering them one article after another, and thrusting aside perversely, as most of them supposed the identical thing they asked for.
"Yes," thought Hepzibah, with grief of which it was only the more tolerable portion that welled up from her heart to her eyelids, "they persecuted his mother in him! He never was a Pyncheon!" But here the shop-bell rang; it was like a sound from a remote distance, so far had Hepzibah descended into the sepulchral depths of her reminiscences.
Miss Bradshaw stole an uneasy glance at his somewhat sallow features, and became thoughtful. "It's no good having diamonds and motor-cars and that sort of thing unless you have somebody to share them with," pursued Mr. Wright. Miss Bradshaw's eyes sparkled, and at that moment the shop-bell tinkled and a lively whistle sounded. She rose and went into the shop, and Mr.
'Tis the laddie's delicate constitution that is so in his way. But I think you'll find Master Roy as plucky over the loss of his leg as he ever was. Now lift your heart up to God and ask Him that he may overrule it all for good. There goes the shop-bell!" Old Principle disappeared, and Dudley soothed and comforted by his sympathy, retraced his steps to the house.
The harsh spring winds were bad for him and made his breathing difficult. The doctor had advised a couple of months in the Riviera until the spring was over; but the old man could not make up his mind. He had not the courage to set out alone. The shop-bell rang, and Pelle went in to serve. A young sunburnt man stood on the other side of the counter and laughed.
Thou man, that hadst so many busy projects yesterday! Art thou too weak, that wast so powerful? Not brush away a fly? Nay, then, we give thee up! And hark! the shop-bell rings. After hours like these latter ones, through which we have borne our heavy tale, it is good to be made sensible that there is a living world, and that even this old, lonely mansion retains some manner of connection with it.
Miss Bradshaw stole an uneasy glance at his somewhat sallow features, and became thoughtful. "It's no good having diamonds and motor-cars and that sort of thing unless you have somebody to share them with," pursued Mr. Wright. Miss Bradshaw's eyes sparkled, and at that moment the shop-bell tinkled and a lively whistle sounded. She rose and went into the shop, and Mr.
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