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Updated: June 21, 2025
The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book was a miserable loft in an unsavoury yard.
At that moment Lizzie Hexam entered, and the visitors after saying farewell to the dolls' dressmaker, took Lizzie out with them for a short walk. The person of the house, dolls' dressmaker, and manufacturer of ornamental pincushions and penwipers, sat in her quaint little low arm-chair, singing in the dark, until Lizzie came back. "Well, Lizzie Mizzie Wizzie," said she, breaking off in her song.
Kaye I should need a little genuine enthusiasm; and frankly, your beloved prodigy does not inspire it. I like Lord Hexam far better." "Oh, Jimmy! He's a fine fellow, but only a type." "He hasn't a rampant ego, if that is what you mean. And for every-day purposes " She shrugged her shoulders.
Hobart were the Boffins; and Doctor Ingleside, with a wooden leg strapped on, dropped into poetry in the light of a friend; Maria Hendee came in twisting up her back hair, as Pleasant Riderhood, Maria Hendee's back hair was splendid; Leslie looked very sweet and quiet as Lizzie Hexam, and she brought with her for her secondary that night the very, real little doll's dressmaker herself, Maddy Freeman, who has carved brackets, and painted lovely book-racks and easels and vases and portfolios for almost everybody's parlors, and yet never gets into them herself.
Pity there was not a word of truth in that superstition about bodies bleeding when touched by the hand of the right person; you never got a sign out of bodies. There being nothing more to be done until the Inquest was held next day, the friends went away together, and Gaffer Hexam and his son went their separate way.
Not long after this, there came a heavy trial to the dolls' dressmaker in the loss from her home of her friend and lodger, Lizzie Hexam.
She rose impatiently and bathed her eyes before ringing for the maid to lace her for dinner it was long past tea-time. "Perhaps I had better marry Lord Hexam and have ten children," she thought. "That sort of existence has kept more women up to the correct standard than anything else except poverty." "And is this really your first big party?" asked Hexam, wonderingly. "The first! The first!
So, they got back to the village as Lizzie Hexam was coming from the paper-mill, and Bella detached herself to speak with her in her own home. 'I am afraid it is a poor room for you, said Lizzie, with a smile of welcome, as she offered the post of honour by the fireside.
They left him undisturbed, and passed out at the wicket-gate. The water-wheel of the paper-mill was audible there, and seemed to have a softening influence on the bright wintry scene. They had arrived but a little while before, and Lizzie Hexam now told them the little she could add to the letter in which she had enclosed Mr Rokesmith's letter and had asked for their instructions.
'My name is Lizzie Hexam. 'I must be sore disfigured. Are you afraid to kiss me? The answer is, the ready pressure of her lips upon the cold but smiling mouth. 'Bless ye! NOW lift me, my love. Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven.
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