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Updated: June 25, 2025
He was either working cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, waiting on the longshoreman or the aged soldier, going out grandly in his scout uniform to fetch things from the grocer's, smartening Grandpa's appearance or his own or else he was reading. And when he was reading, his world and all of its cares dropped magically away from him, and the clock hands fairly spun.
To her in her poverty and her disgrace he had proved himself nobly loyal. 'I ought to be very grateful to him, she said to herself; and then in her schoolgirl phrase she added, 'and he is very nice. Mrs. Topman was in the house, tidying and smartening that rustic sitting-room, which had not been kept too neatly during Mr. Wendover's occupation.
He could not endure it, and so instead of smartening himself up after work and going for company to the village street, he would walk down the secluded lane near the farm to spend the hour before supper and bedtime sitting on a gate, brooding on his misery; and if by chance he met Marty in the village he would try to avoid her, and was silent and uncomfortable in her presence.
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