“Yes. If I do
not look after her, she has no one. He sat down on the sill of the open window, folded his arms,
and stared straight before him for a long time over the wilderness of tiles and
chimney-pots into a sky that was blue and empty. "
"Would you like to have me come in and talk?" How tender that sounded!—talk!
"If you want to. She saw nothing of their love-making, and came home from her
boarding-school in a state of decently suppressed curiosity for Alice’s wedding. Near to these hopeful youths sat a
fence, or receiver, bargaining with a clouter, or pickpocket, for a suit,—or, to
speak in more intelligible language, a watch and seals, two cloaks, commonly
called watch-cases, and a wedge-lobb, otherwise known as a silver snuff-box. There he sat, cheerfully friendly in his sex’s freedom—the
man she loved, the one man she cared should unlock the way to the wide world
for her imprisoned feminine possibilities, and he seemed regardless that she
stifled under his eyes; he made a jest of all this passionate insurgence of the
souls of women against the fate of their conditions. Michelle stopped by the Beck’s after school that day. But was that enough?
Dim, formless suspicions of something more vital wandered about his mind. Wood trembled.
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