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"The furniture!" exclaimed Anthea, and stamped her foot with vexation. "That wretched furniture! Of course you explained your object in buying it, Mr. Bellew?" "Well, no, we hadn't got as far as that." Now when he said this, Anthea's eyes flashed sudden scorn at him, and she curled her lip at him, and turned her back upon him: "Mr.
Also she brought back all Anthea's money. 'My cousin, she give me the jug for luck; she said it was an odd one what the basin of had got smashed. 'Oh, Martha, you arc a dear! sighed Anthea, throwing her arms round her. 'Yes, giggled Martha, 'you'd better make the most of me while you've got me. I shall give your ma notice directly minute she comes back.
Anyhow, the mortgage be paid off, sir, Miss Anthea's free, an' 'tis joy'ful, an' 'appy-'earted I be this night. Prudence an' me'll be gettin' married soon now, an' when I think of her cookin' Lord, Mr. Belloo sir! All as I say is God bless Master Georgy! Good-night, sir! an' may your dreams be as 'appy as mine, always supposin' I do dream, which is seldom. Good-night, sir!"
'None of those little girls is her own little girl, thought Anthea. The little black-clad London child pulled at Anthea's sleeve. 'Look, she said, 'that one there she's precious like mother; mother's 'air was somethink lovely, when she 'ad time to comb it out. Mother wouldn't never a-beat me if she'd lived 'ere I don't suppose there's e'er a public nearer than Epping, do you, Miss?
As she spoke, she rose, and dropped him a courtesy, and then, as he looked at her again, he saw that despite her words, and despite her white hair, she was much younger, and prettier than he had thought. "I am Miss Anthea's house-keeper," she went on, "I was away when you arrived, looking after one of Miss Anthea's old ladies, pray be seated.
But here Adam, who had been screwing and wringing at his hat, now stepped forward and, tapping Grimes upon the shoulder, pointed to the door: "Mister Grimes," said he, "Miss Anthea's told ye all as you come here to find out, she's told ye as she can't pay, so now, s'pose you go." "But all I want to know is when she'll be ready to move, and I ain't a going till I do, so you get out o' my way!"
As Bellew looked at it now, that same small curl that nodded and beckoned to him above Anthea's left ear, he strongly inclined to the latter opinion. "Adam tells me that you are going out, Miss Anthea." "Only as far as Mrs. Dibbin's cottage, just across the meadow." "Adam also informs me that Mrs. Dibbin is a witch." "People call her so."
"He'll mend of his youngness with time," said Martha; "and as for smallness, I don't think you'd fancy carrying of him any more, however big he was. Besides he can walk a bit, bless his precious fat legs, a ducky! He feels the benefit of the new-laid air, so he does, a pet!" With this and a kiss, she plumped the Lamb into Anthea's arms, and went back to make new pinafores on the sewing-machine.
And here were the two rosy-cheeked maids, brighter and rosier than ever, and here was comely Prudence hither come from her kitchen to bear a hand, and here, as has been said, was Adam, and here also was Bellew, his pipe laid aside with his coat, pushing, and tugging in his efforts to get the great side-board back into its customary position; and all, as has also been said, was laughter, and bustle, and an eager haste to have all things as they were, and should be henceforth, before Anthea's return.
"Well, 'cause my Auntie Anthea's 'fraid you do." "Is she hum! Why?" "When she came to 'tuck me up, last night, she sat down on my bed, an' talked to me a long time. An' she sighed a lot, an' said she was 'fraid I didn't care for her any more, which was awful' silly, you know." "Yes, of course!" nodded Bellew.
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