Part 4 But presently, as she sat on the one antimacassared red silk chair and surveyed her hold-all and bag in that tidy, rather vacant, and dehumanized apartment, with its empty wardrobe and desert toilet-table and pictureless walls and stereotyped furnishings, a sudden blankness came upon her as though she didn’t matter, and had been thrust away into this impersonal corner, she and her gear. “I’m six hundred and forty-eight, John, but guess how old I look? Fifteen. At the bottom of the trunk I found two of my mother's dresses. "The doctor and I agreed to give you a chance—for her sake. " "Very well. The arrangement had been made by the town matchmaker, a frightening old oak of a man. He temporized, and the girl raised her eyes once more to his. While Thames modestly expressed a hope that he might not belie the carpenter's favourable prediction, Jack Sheppard thought fit to mount a small ladder placed against the wall, and, springing with the agility of an ape upon a sort of frame, contrived to sustain short spars and blocks of timber, began to search about for a piece of wood required in the work on which he was engaged. “Holcroft,” he remarked, “in bald language, and with the usual limitations of his clouded intellect, has still given some slight expression to the consternation which I believe I may say is general amongst us. She admired and rather pitied him, and she was unfeignedly grateful to him. "You heard me say it! It was inevitable. He had been formally adopted by the Becks at the age of twelve. No more did she offer her forehead for the good-night kiss. You fooled me this morning; but I overheard two old maids talking about you and the young man.
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