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Updated: June 29, 2025
It was not that he was paralysed as he had been on the previous occasion, when he sat as now and heard Phoebe go away after her first visit, and when the wind blowing in from the open door playfully carried to his feet the scribbled note with Tozer's name. He was not stupefied as then, nor was he miserable.
"Did not you give this bill to Tozer the bill which he now holds?" "In the first place he does not hold it; and in the next place I did not give it to him. These things pass through scores of hands before they reach the man who makes the application for payment." "And who came to me the other day?" "That, I take it, was Tom Tozer, a brother of our Tozer's."
Hurst, half alarmed too; "but it is not anything, as your father says; only we women are sensitive. We are always thinking of things which, perhaps, were never intended to harm us. Ursula, you take my advice, and don't go and mix yourself up with Dissenters and that kind of people. The Tozer girl may be very nice, but she is still Tozer's granddaughter, after all."
Beecham said to her husband; and he shared the feeling, though he could not but think within himself that her aspect was of very much more importance than the appearance of Phoebe Tozer's child could possibly be as his daughter. "You are quite right, my dear," he replied, "vulgar people of that sort are but too ready to look down upon a pastor's family.
But then how weak that would be, Phoebe thought to herself, drawing Mrs. Tozer's arm more tightly within her own how small! how it would hurt the feelings of the old people, how it would vex and embarrass her father and mother! Lastly, it might peril her brother's interests and her own, which, to do her justice, was the last thing she thought of, and yet was not undeserving of notice in its way.
Tozer's satisfaction would have been unalloyed as she watched her granddaughter walking across the garden.
It was with such words that Tom Tozer's face spoke out; and though a thorough liar in his heart, he was not a liar in his face. "Well, Tozer," said Mr. Sowerby, absolutely shaking hands with the dirty miscreant, "I wanted to see your brother." "John ain't here, and ain't like; but it's all as one." "Yes, yes; I suppose it is. I know you two hunt in couples."
What it must be for that girl to own this old man, to live with him, and feel herself shut into his society and friends of his choosing to hear herself spoken of as Phoebe, junior! The idea made him shiver, and this caught old Tozer's always hospitable eye. "You're chilly," he said, "and I don't wonder after the dreadful weather we've had.
The bill to which Tozer's signature had been appended did not oppress his conscience. After all, what was it?
May had reconciled himself so completely to the Tozer business, the appearance of Tozer's granddaughter gave him a momentary shock. "What did you do with my grandfather's letter? he thought her eyes said, and the meeting confused and disturbed him. This, however, was only for a moment.
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