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'Dropped, sir, as if she was shot when I told her! Never knew her do such a thing before. Does her credit, under the circumstances, in my opinion! She still looked faint and pale. James Harthouse begged her to take his arm; and as they moved on very slowly, asked her how the robbery had been committed. 'Why, I am going to tell you, said Bounderby, irritably giving his arm to Mrs. Sparsit.
'I went to the house where Stephen Blackpool lodged, on the night of his discharge from his work, and I saw you there. He was there too; and an old woman who did not speak, and whom I could scarcely see, stood in a dark corner. My brother was with me. 'Why couldn't you say so, young Tom? demanded Bounderby. 'I promised my sister I wouldn't. Which Louisa hastily confirmed.
The women sadly bestirred themselves to get the clothes together it was soon done, for they were not many and to pack them in a basket which had often travelled with them. Sissy sat all the time upon the ground, still sobbing, and covering her eyes. Mr. Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby stood near the door, ready to take her away. Mr.
Bounderby, with his thumbs in the arms of his coat, and jerking his head and shutting his eyes in confidence with the opposite wall: 'how it happens. 'I'd leefer not coom to 't, sir; but sin you put th' question an' not want'n t' be ill-manner'n I'll answer. I ha passed a promess. 'Not to me, you know, said Bounderby. 'O no, sir. Not to yo.
Bounderby, said Jem, 'you anticipate my dearest wishes. They went out without further discourse; and Mr. Bounderby piloted the new acquaintance who so strongly contrasted with him, to the private red brick dwelling, with the black outside shutters, the green inside blinds, and the black street door up the two white steps.
Bounderby with no good wishes. 'Then you haven't heard! 'I have heard you, and so has this brute. I have heard nothing else. Mr. Bounderby, red and hot, planted himself in the centre of the path before the horse's head, to explode his bombshell with more effect. 'The Bank's robbed! 'You don't mean it! 'Robbed last night, sir. Robbed in an extraordinary manner. Robbed with a false key.
What I shall say to people in general, of the incompatibility that led to my so laying down the law, will be this. I am Josiah Bounderby, and I had my bringing- up; she's the daughter of Tom Gradgrind, and she had her bringing- up; and the two horses wouldn't pull together.
'You're a pretty article, growled the whelp, moving uneasily in his dark corner, 'to come here with these precious imputations! You ought to be bundled out for not knowing how to behave yourself, and you would be by rights. She said nothing in reply; and her low weeping was the only sound that was heard, until Mr. Bounderby spoke. 'Come! said he, 'you know what you have engaged to do.
I am the bearer of a letter of introduction to Mr. Bounderby, the banker. Walking through this extraordinarily black town, while they were getting dinner ready at the hotel, I asked a fellow whom I met; one of the working people; who appeared to have been taking a shower-bath of something fluffy, which I assume to be the raw material Mrs. Sparsit inclined her head.
Harthouse, that you really suppose my sister Loo does care for old Bounderby. 'My dear fellow, returned the other, 'what am I bound to suppose, when I find two married people living in harmony and happiness? Tom had by this time got both his legs on the sofa.
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