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LUCY MAKES A FRIEND
English class was a sleepy affair, made sleepier by the
fact that the school year was drawing to a close. She fell with a
plop onto her rear end in the mud and sat dumbly like a
statue, water eddying around her. Do you think we could
manage that old clothesman between us, if we got out of this box?"
"I'd manage him myself, if my arms were free," replied Thames, boldly. "
So saying, he closed the door. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. I was rude and stupid. "
"Have you told her?"
"Told her? Told her what?" Spurlock sat straight in his chair. Only I just
want him. “Thank you. ”
He pulled up at the Beck’s doorstep at 1:48. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the
whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion
seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon
the threshold. I put your clothes out an hour ago. The whole story of
your relationship is a fabrication. It is the worst of talk under
such social circumstances that it is always getting cut off so soon as it is
beginning; and I went home that afternoon feeling I had said nothing—literally
nothing—of the things I had meant to say to you and that were coursing through
my head. This island was the
one haven he had; he might be forced to remain here for several years—until the
Hand had forgotten him.
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