Her two new friends did their best to entertain her. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. Love is one thing and friendship quite another. The tall, blond boys, right?” “That’s them. It was not without considerable demur and delay on the part of Sharples that the carpenter and his companion could gain admittance to the round-house. "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. Flinging her back against it, she put her hands out, barring his way. She was flushed, and her eyes were bright and angry; her breath came sobbing, and her hair was all abroad in wandering strands of black. ‘I’ve eyes in my head, haven’t I?’ He grunted. To compare me to a starving pig. ‘One of they Frenchies, that’s what I say—if it ain’t a ghost. ’ ‘Also stealing,’ added Gerald, with a gesture at the clothes on the bed.
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