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She was rich enough to be in a position to regard it as a sort of game, and he had been able on several occasions to afford her entertainment. He would remain a few days, and spend his time chiefly in telling her the details of the great scheme and the manner in which they were to be developed. "If she can play with things that way, she'll be sure to want stock in it," Tembarom remarked.
There was an extraordinary human atmosphere in the room which caused things to begin to go on in his breast. He had had a harder life than Tembarom because he had been more timid and less buoyant and less unselfconscious. He had been beaten by a drunken mother and kicked by a drunken father. He had gone hungry and faint to the board school and had been punished as a dull boy.
Strangeways would be startled into coming to the window." Tembarom cleared his throat. "He did that twice," he said. "Pearson caught him at it, though Palliser didn't know he did.
"What a swell he looked when he moved about like that! What a swell, by jings!" He looked along the line of shelves and presently took a book down and opened it. He turned over its leaves until something arrested his attention, and then he fell to reading. He read several minutes, while Tembarom watched him. The silence was broken by his laughing a little.
"Sure," Tembarom answered, getting up from his seat "They're in my room. I turned them up yesterday among some other things." When he left them, Mr. Palford sat gently rubbing his chin. Hutchinson wanted to burst forth with questions, but he looked so remote and acidly dignified that there was a suggestion of boldness in the idea of intruding on his reflections.
"Well, not to say exactly know her, sir, but everybody knows of her. She is a most remarkable old person, sir." Then, after watching his face for a moment or so, he added tentatively, "Would you perhaps wish us to make her acquaintance for for any reason?" Tembarom thought the matter over speculatively. He had learned that his first liking for Pearson had been founded upon a rock.
This was the natural habit of her mind, and in the weeks which followed the foggy afternoon when Tembarom "staked out his claim" she dwelt often upon her unworthiness of the benefits bestowed upon her. First the world below-stairs, then the village, and then the county itself awoke to the fact that the new Temple Temple Barholm had "taken her up."
Jim Bowles and Julius had been down on their luck for several weeks, and that "good old T. T." should come in with this fairy-story was an actual stimulus. If you have never in your life been able to earn more than will pay for your food and lodging, twenty dollars looms up large. It might be the beginning of anything. "First thing is to get on to the way to do it," argued Tembarom.
The boy turned over against his pillow and put his chin in the hollow of his palm and stared. "I've wanted to see thee," he remarked. "I've made mother an' Aunt Susan an' feyther tell me every bit they've heared about thee in the village. Theer was a lot of it. Tha coom fro' 'Meriker?" "Yes." Tembarom began vaguely to feel the demand in the burning curiosity.
"Well, sir, it means doing all you require, and being always in attendance when you change." "How much do you get for it?" "Thirty shillings a week, sir." "Say, Pearson," said Tembarom, with honest feeling, "I'll give you sixty shillings a week NOT to do it." Calmed though he had felt a few moments ago, it cannot be denied that Pearson was aghast.
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