I arrived here with something less than five pounds in my pocket. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. There were seven tales in all—short stories—a method of expression quite strange to her, after the immense canvases of Dickens and Hugo. “I can’t see what possible benefit can come of discussing things that are settled. So he found her when he came round the corner of the spinney. She was practicing with them on that very day, and displaced a rather mediocre boy violinist who claimed “to be better at the viola anyway” as first chair. From one window the beach was always visible; from another, the stores. The next few hours will tell. Then began expostulations, preluded by a telegram and headed by her aunt. “I didn’t know you were half-Gypsy either. Give this fellow the slip, if you can, Jack. "You open it, Ruth. The letter began: “MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—” She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate gesture flung them into the fire.
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