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"I have merely been initiating him into the mysteries of raising Leghorns." Hexam looked stupefied, but Miss Thangue burst into a merry peal of laughter. "Isabel!" she exclaimed. "I begin to suspect you are a minx!" And Isabel laughed, too, in sheer excess of animal spirits and gratified vanity. She had excellent cause to remember the ebullition, for it was some time before she laughed again.
'I do not doubt it, said Lizzie, with her eyes upon the ground. 'I have sometimes had it in my thoughts to make that offer and to settle down as many men of my class do: I on the one side of a school, my wife on the other, both of us interested in the same work. 'Why have you not done so? asked Lizzie Hexam. 'Why do you not do so? 'Far better that I never did!
'Good-night, Miss! said Lizzie Hexam, sorrowfully. 'Hah! Good-night! returned Miss Abbey with a shake of her head. 'Believe me, Miss Abbey, I am truly grateful all the same. 'I can believe a good deal, returned the stately Abbey, 'so I'll try to believe that too, Lizzie. No supper did Miss Potterson take that night, and only half her usual tumbler of hot Port Negus.
After much consultation with herself, she decided not to put Lizzie Hexam on her guard against the old man, arguing that the disappointment of finding him out would come upon her quite soon enough. Therefore, in her communication with her friend by letter, she was silent on this theme, and principally dilated on the backslidings of her bad child, who every day grew worse and worse.
Now Mr Headstone, as Mr Eugene Wrayburn has been obliged to hear what I had to say, and couldn't help himself, and as I have said it out to the last word, we have done all we wanted to do, and may go. 'Go down-stairs, and leave me a moment, Hexam, he returned.
Then he leaned over the parapet and spat down at a rowboat that was passing below. As the boat moved out into the glimmering light we made out Lizzie Hexam at the oars, while Gaffer sat in the stern on the lookout. The Marchioness went by as we stood there, a bit of tattered shawl over her frowsy head, one stocking down around her shoetop.
Very lately, the young woman, Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the late Jesse Hexam, otherwise Gaffer, who will be remembered to have found the body of the man from somewhere, mysteriously received, she knew not from whom, an explicit retraction of the charges made against her father, by another water-side character of the name of Riderhood.
'You go a little way with Pa, John? 'Yes, my dear. Do you? 'I have not written to Lizzie Hexam since I wrote and told her that I really had a lover a whole one. I have often thought I would like to tell her how right she was when she pretended to read in the live coals that I would go through fire and water for him.
It is a great thing! a stupendous thing! I wish I knew that I should live to see England, all Europe, a republic. There is no other state fit for self-respecting men that voice in the selection of their own rulers." "By Jove, Jack!" cried Lord Hexam. "I never heard you go as far as that before." "Possibly you never will again.
Suppression of so much to make room for so much, had given him a constrained manner, over and above. Regarding that origin of his, he was proud, moody, and sullen, desiring it to be forgotten. And few people knew of it. In some visits to the Jumble his attention had been attracted to this boy Hexam.
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