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''Tis concerning Sloppy, sir, said Betty. 'And that's how I come here by myself. Not wishing him to know what I'm a-going to say to you, I got the start of him early and walked up. 'You have wonderful energy, returned Rokesmith. 'You are as young as I am. Betty Higden gravely shook her head. 'I am strong for my time of life, sir, but not young, thank the Lord!
The abode of Mrs Betty Higden was not easy to find, lying in such complicated back settlements of muddy Brentford that they left their equipage at the sign of the Three Magpies, and went in search of it on foot.
'And Master or Mister Sloppy? said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what. 'A love-child, returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; 'parents never known; found in the street. He was brought up in the with a shiver of repugnance, the House. 'The Poor-house? said the Secretary. Mrs Higden set that resolute old face of hers, and darkly nodded yes.
Nobody need be frightened. We're all comfortable; ain't we, Mrs Higden? 'Sure and certain we are, returned Betty. 'And there really is no hurry, you know, said Mrs Boffin in a lower voice. 'Take time to think of it, my good creature! 'Don't you fear ME no more, ma'am, said Betty; 'I thought of it for good yesterday. I don't know what come over me just now, but it'll never come again.
He would have made a wonderful cabinet-maker, said Mrs Higden, 'if there had been the money to put him to it. She had seen him handle tools that he had borrowed to mend the mangle, or to knock a broken piece of furniture together, in a surprising manner. As to constructing toys for the Minders, out of nothing, he had done that daily.
That the shadow should be deep as it came on, like the shadow of an actual presence, was in accordance with the laws of the physical world, for all the Light that shone on Betty Higden lay beyond Death. The poor old creature had taken the upward course of the river Thames as her general track; it was the track in which her last home lay, and of which she had last had local love and knowledge.
De Gest. Brompton p. 959. Gul. Pict. p. 201. Order. Higden, p. 286. Matth. West. p. 223. Harold had seized the advantage of a rising ground, and having likewise drawn some trenches to secure his flanks, he resolved to stand upon the defensive, and to avoid all action with the cavalry, in which he was inferior.
The Secretary felt that there was no gainsaying what was urged by this brave old heroine, and he presently repaired to Mrs Boffin and recommended her to let Betty Higden have her way, at all events for the time.
'I am so determined, she answered resolutely, though trembling, 'to fly from such a lover. There was a poor woman died here but a little while ago, scores of years older than I am, whom I found by chance, lying on the wet earth. You may have heard some account of her? 'I think I have, he answered, 'if her name was Higden. 'Her name was Higden.
The visitors again considered it a point of politeness to look at Sloppy, who, looking at them, suddenly threw back his head, extended his mouth to its utmost width, and laughed loud and long. At this the two innocents, with their brains in that apparent danger, laughed, and Mrs Higden laughed, and the orphan laughed, and then the visitors laughed. Which was more cheerful than intelligible.
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