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I have used no threat, remember; I have done no more than show you how the case stands; how the case stands, so far. At this moment her brother sauntered into view close by. She darted to him, and caught him by the hand. Bradley followed, and laid his heavy hand on the boy's opposite shoulder. 'Charley Hexam, I am going home.
'Really, Mrs T., remarked the dressmaker, 'since it comes to this, we must positively turn you with your face to the wall. She had hardly done so, when Lizzie Hexam arrived, and showed some surprise on seeing Bradley Headstone there, and Jenny shaking her little fist at him close before her eyes, and the Honourable Mrs T. with her face to the wall.
"I am sorry you did not happen to come a month earlier. Have you seen anything of Hexam? He was going on to Arcot." "He rode over, or walked over, every day. We should have fallen a prey to melancholy without him, although you may believe me when I assure you that we thought more of you than we did of ourselves.
'Culture' is a tempting morsel for the jokemaker, but as an alternative for dull domesticity and the vulgar inanities of gossip it is not to be despised." "By Jove, you are right," said Hexam, not without warmth. "Is my fair cousin converting you to something?" asked the host. His voice had been little heard, and he looked sulky. "Cousin?"
Miss Peecher's favourite pupil, who assisted her in her little household, was in attendance with a can of water to replenish her little watering-pot, and sufficiently divined the state of Miss Peecher's affections to feel it necessary that she herself should love young Charley Hexam.
Bradley Headstone gradually released the boy's arm, as if he were thoughtful, and they walked on side by side as before. After a long silence between them, Bradley resumed the talk. 'I suppose your sister with a curious break both before and after the words, 'has received hardly any teaching, Hexam? 'Hardly any, sir. 'Sacrificed, no doubt, to her father's objections.
'Charley Hexam has gone to get a book or two he wants, and will probably be back before me. As we leave my house empty, I took the liberty of telling him I would leave the key here. Would you kindly allow me to do so? 'Certainly, Mr Headstone. Going for an evening walk, sir? 'Partly for a walk, and partly for on business.
For there was no question, even in the minds of the young married women, who carry all before them in English society, that the American girl had created a furore among the men. Isabel had confided to the duke, who had lunched that day at Capheaton, and to Hexam, her haunting fear of being a wall-flower, and both had vowed that she should have no lack of partners at her first English ball.
At a place where the houses ceased, and an open space left free a prospect of the black and bad-smelling river, there was an old factory, disused and ruined, like the ancient mill in which Gaffer Hexam made his home, and Lizzie told the fortunes of her brother in the hollow by the fire. I turned down a muddy alley, where 12 or 15 placards headed "Body Found," were pasted against the wall.
'If you please, ma'am, Hexam said they were going to see his sister. 'But that can't be, I think, returned Miss Peecher: 'because Mr Headstone can have no business with HER. Mary Anne again hailed. 'Well, Mary Anne? 'If you please, ma'am, perhaps it's Hexam's business? 'That may be, said Miss Peecher. 'I didn't think of that. Not that it matters at all. Mary Anne again hailed.
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