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As they quitted the house, Tipps ran back to the door and called his sister out of the parlour. "I say, Netta, what about this fifty pounds that mother was talking of?" he said. "Do you mean to say that you are really short of that sum, and in debt?" "We are, but I see a way out of the difficulty. Don't distress yourself, Joe; we shall have everything squared up, as you call it in a few days."
Mrs Durby having packed up the diamond ring in the careful manner which we have described in a previous chapter, essayed to get ready for her important journey to London on pawning purposes intent, but she found that there were so many little preparations to make, both in regard to her own toilette and to the arrangements of Mrs Tipps' establishment, in prospect of its being left without its first mate for a time, that a considerable period elapsed before she got her anchor tripped and herself ready to set sail with the first fair wind.
No doubt we shall always have one or two prowling about, and may occasionally alight on a nest of 'em, but we shall manage to keep 'em down to winnow them out faster, perhaps, than they come in. I am just going about some little pieces of business of that sort now," added Mr Sharp; putting on his hat. "Did you wish to speak with me about anything in particular, Mr Tipps?"
With a feeling of sudden anger Gurwood turned round, but before he could speak his eye fell on Mrs Tipps, who sat on a bench leaning on her son's breast, and looking deadly pale but quite composed. "My dear Mrs Tipps," exclaimed the youth, stepping hastily forward, "I hope I trust " "Oh, Edwin thank you, my dear fellow," cried Joseph, grasping his hand and shaking it.
"It was all but striking the brick walls each side, and she was muttering and howling like a young she-devil over it, her eyes all crazy and wild, and her hair hanging down her shoulders. Tipps flew and grabbed the baby, and then she turned and clawed him like a tiger-cat.
Observing her shudder, he placed his strong arm behind her, and adroitly sinking down on one knee received her on the other, very much after the manner in which, while at school, he had been wont to act the part of second to pugilistic companions. Mrs Tipps recovered almost immediately, sprang up, and hurried into the house, followed by Gurwood.
I know no more about pawning than yourself, but I do know that a considerable time must elapse before the ring shall be lost to me. And, you know, our bills must be paid." Good Mrs Durby did not require much persuasion. She consented to set off as soon as possible, if she should obtain permission from Mrs Tipps, who was aware that she had intended to visit her brother about that time.
Hereupon Gurwood and his friend plunged into an animated conversation about railway accidents and their consequences, to the intense interest and horror of Mrs Tipps. Meanwhile Netta left the room, and went to her old nurse's apartment. "Nurse," she said, hurriedly, "when did you say you proposed paying your brother in London a visit about this time, was it not?"
"Of course," pleaded Mrs Tipps, "in making an estimate, I was thinking only of my own expenses, you know not of charities and such-like things; but when poor people come, you know, what is one to do?" "We'll not discuss that just now, mother. Hallo! `ten guineas doctor's fee! Of course you have not that in the estimate, seeing that you did not know Netta was going to be ill.
"And you sometimes drive at sixty or seventy miles an hour?" "Yes, ma'am." "With people in the carriages?" "Cer'nly, ma'am." "How I wish that I had lived a hundred years ago!" sighed poor Mrs Tipps. "You'd have bin a pretty old girl by this time if you had," thought the engine-driver, but he was too polite to give utterance to the thought.
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