Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-04-28
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL as, 1859.
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A MORNING ApvENruRr.
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A MORNING ADVENTURE. aa3
Although the morning was raw, and although
the fog still seemed heavy-I say seemed for the
windows were so encrusted with dirt that they
would have have Midsummer sunshine dimI was
sufficiently forewarned OF the discomfort within
doors atthat early hour, and sufficiently curious
about London, to think it good idea on the part
/ OF Miss Jellyby when she proposed that we should
| 90 out for walk.
Ma won't be down for ever so long she said.
and then IT'S chance if breakfasts ready for
| an hour afterwards, they dawdle so. As to Pa.
he gets what he can, and goes to the office He
| never has what you would call a regular break
fast Priscilla leaves him out the loaf and some
milk, when there is any over night. Sometimes
there isn't any milk aud sometimes the cat drinks
1T. But Pm afraid you must be tired, Miss Sum
merson; and perhaps you would rather go to
bed s a7 M.
lam not at all tired, my DEAR said /, and
would much prefer to go out.
If you sure you would, returned Miss Jel
yby, I'll get my things on Z
Ada said she would 90 too, and was soon astr.
made proposal to iieepy, in default Of being
able to do anything better for him. that he should
let me wash hun and afterwards lay him down
on my bed again. To this he submitted with the
best grace possble; staring at me during the
whole operation, as if he never had been. and
never could again be, so astonished IN his life
looking very miserable also, certainly, but maxi
ing no complaint, and going snugy to sleep as
soon as 1t was over At first was in two minds
about taking such liberty, but / soon reflected
that no body in the house was likely 10 notice it.
What with the hustle of despatching Peepy.
and The hustle of getting myself ready, and help
ing Ada, was quite in glow. We found
Miss Jellyby trying to warm herself al the fire in
the wrlting-room, which Prscclll was tien light
ing with smulty paror candlestick-- throwing
the candle in to make 1t burn better. Everything
was just as We had left it last night, and was evi-
IDENTITY intended to remain so. Below stairs the
dinner-cloth had not been taking away, but had
been left ready for breakfast. Crumbs, dust, and
waste paper were all over the house. Some pew
ier-pots and milk-pan hung On the area rail-
i"Sss sAe door sss,,ef etvs.,
round the corner comIug out Of public house,
wiping her mouth. She mentioned, as she pass
ed US, that she had been to see what O'Clock it
was E..ta,...a
But before we met the cook, we met Richard.
who was dancing up and down Thavies Inn to
warm his feet He was agreeably Surprised to
Trease stirring soon, and said he would gladly
shs our walk. So he took care of Ada. and
Miss gellyhy and / went first. | may mention
that Miss Jellyby had relapsed into her sulky
manner, and that | really should not have
thought she liked me much, unless she had told
me so. t}
where would you wish to go? she asked. So
Anywhere, my dear, Irepled. 93i -
Anywhere's nowhere, said Miss Jellyby, stop
ping perversey. VIA.
Let us go somewhere at any rate said I.
She then walked me on very fast m
'Idon't care' she said Now, YOU are nv
witness, Miss Summerson, ! say don't care
but if he was to come TO our house, with his great
shining lumpy forehead, night after night till he
was as old as Methuselah, | wouldn't have any,
thing to say to him Such Asses as he and Ma i
make of lhemseves!' 4
my dear' demonstrated in alIuson to the |
epilhet, and the vigorous emphasis Miss JelIyby |
set upon it. Your duty as child
%! don't talk of duty as a child, Miss Sum-
merson; where's Mas duty as parent? All |
made over to the public and Africa, suppose |
Then let the public and Africa show duty as
child; it's much more their affair than mine.
You are shocked, dare say! Very well so am
shocked too; SO we are both shocked, and there's
aud end of itn
She walked me on faster yet 0se
But for all that, | say again, he may come
and come, and come, and won't have anything
to say to him. | can't bear him. If there's any
stuff IN the world that hate and detest, it's the
stuff he and Ma talk. | wonder the very paving
stones opposite our house can have the patience
to stay there, and be a witness of such lnconss-
tencies and contradictions as all that sounding
nonsense and Mas management
| could not but understand her to refer to Mr.. /,
Quale, the young gentleman who had appeared
after dinner yesterday. was saved the disagree
able necessity of pursuing The subject, by Rich
lrd and Ada coming up at round pace, laugh
ng, and asking us if we meant to run a race? S
Thus interrupted, Miss JeIlyby became silent f
Ind walked moodily on at my side? while | adj /
nired the long SUGGESTIONS and varieties of In
treets, the quantity of people already going to h
md fro, the number of vehicles passing and re- 4 q
assing, the busy preparations IN the setting forth
f shop windows and the sweeping out of shops, / [
nd the extraordinary creatures in rags, secretly IA
roping among the sweptout rubbish for pins t,
nd other refuse. ad& 1911 flia f,1.l ffts lv
$50 cousin, said the cheerful voice of Richard il
o Ada, behind me we are never to get out d
f Chancery! We have come by another way La
our place of meeting yesterday !; and -by the LIE
treat Seal, here's the old lady againn e9sg 1
Truly, there she was Immediately in front of 4 O.
IS, courtsying and smiling, and saying, with her p
air of patronage:s a Ba,snra br II
'The wards In Jarndyce! Very happy, lam c,
ure = 8 aGa8 80 aoas7ialhs gI5f 4 c.
'You al out early, ma am, said |, she court
sedto me. qaa sas4a ala Ia 9Yai1 affss t..
'Ye-es! usually walk here early. Before ia
he Court sits. It's retired collecting thoughts to
ere for the business of the day, said the old lady hi
lincinsly. 'Ihe business of the day requires ii
reat deal of thought. Chancery justice is SO o,
cry difficult follow 'ag a baa asasis ae43l t.
whats this, Miss Summerson . whispered "
liss Jelyby, drawing my arm tighter through G
er own fsn e9H Il faarota els ba.) 10 esssffvsl W
The little old lady's hearing was remarkably G,
uiclS She answered for herself directly. nnsgs,E
"a sutton, my child. At your service. Ihave Q,
he honor to attend court regularly. With my Il