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"Now, you young beggar! where have you seen me afore? I ain't going to hurt you. You tell up straight and tell the truth." "Not onlest you leave hold of my arm!" "You do like he says, Mr. Wix.... Now you tell Mr. Wix, Micky. He won't hurt you." Thus Miss Julia, procuring liberty for the hand to receive the half-and-half she was balancing its foam on.
"No; yesterday morning. She drove to me straight from the station. It was most remarkable. If I had a job to get off she did nothing to make it worse she did a great deal to make it better." Mrs. Wix hung fire, though the flame in her face burned brighter; then she became capable of saying: "Her ladyship's kind! She did what I didn't expect."
It was better he should do that than attempt to test her knowledge; but there at the worst was the gist of the matter: it was open between them at last that their great change, as, speaking as if it had already lasted weeks, Maisie called it, was somehow built up round Mrs. Wix.
The year therefore rounded itself as a receptacle of retarded knowledge a cup brimming over with the sense that now at least she was learning. Mrs. Wix fed this sense from the stores of her conversation and with the immense bustle of her reminder that they must cull the fleeting hour.
Wix said, "but especially between the two" to the point of God only knew what. Her description of the crisis made the child blanch. "Between which two? papa and mamma?" "Dear no. I mean between your mother and HIM." Maisie, in this, recognised an opportunity to be really deep. "'Him'? Mr. Perriam?" She fairly brought a blush to the scared face.
Maisie was aware that her answer, though it brought her down to her heels, was vague even to imbecility, and that this was the first time she had appeared to practise with Mrs. Wix an intellectual inaptitude to meet her the infirmity to which she had owed so much success with papa and mamma.
She felt none the less for a moment at the bottom of a hole; then she seemed to see a way out. "But I didn't bring mamma together " She just faltered. "With all those gentlemen?" Mrs. Wix pulled her up. "No; it isn't quite so bad as that." "And even that wasn't much harm," threw in Mrs. Wix. "It wasn't much good," Maisie was obliged to recognise. "She can't bear him not even a mite.
This art again came to her aid: her mother, in getting rid of her after an interview in which she had achieved a hollowness beyond her years, allowed her fully to understand she had not grown a bit more amusing. She could bear that; she could bear anything that helped her to feel she had done something for Sir Claude. If she hadn't told Mrs. Wix how Mrs.
"Don't dream of it, my dear I'll write: you may trust me!" cried Miss Overmore; who indeed wrote to such purpose that a hush in which you could have heard a pin drop descended upon poor Mrs. Wix.
"He's WITH her," Mrs. Wix desolately said. "He's with her," she reiterated. "Do you mean in her own room?" Maisie continued. She waited an instant. "God knows!" Maisie wondered a little why, or how, God should know; this, however, delayed but an instant her bringing out: "Well, won't she go back?" "Go back? Never!" "She'll stay all the same?" "All the more." "Then won't Sir Claude go?"
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