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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ought she not tohave said Lord Chief Justice? He
shuffledand fumbled; but as he always ignored the injury, his childrendared not help
him.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He was very pale but his dark eyes
glowed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A curious amusement seemed to fill Mrs Pargiter. An
oval white shape hung infront of her dangling, as if it hung from a string. She
wished people would not say, Bring one of yourdaughters. Her sister Delia,lying back
in a chair beside her, watched it too. She can see hershadow on the wall, Milly was
saying. Thedog was asleep on the mat; the coast was clear; the hall was empty.
Shestood at the door, with her pale-blue eyes looking very prominent.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the silence they could hear a coal click in
thegrate and a street hawker droning down the road.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sometimes a bowl shone deep blue; then became
livid. The lamps stood atgreat distances apart, and there were pools of darkness
between.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mrs Levy had her rent ready, for a wonder, she
said.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All their lives depended upon her riding to them
through theenemys country.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A moment or two later backshe came carrying two
silk-shaded lamps.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then a gulping sound behind her made
herturn.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just tell Mama what youve beendoing; and then the
kettle .</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When she came to thebedroom door with the jugs and
glasses on the table outside, shepaused.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Putting her finger on the page to mark the place,
she looked at hersister.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The crocuses were yellow and purple in the
frontgardens. All their lives depended upon her riding to them through theenemys
country. She listened intentlyas she passed the schoolroom door. She had a
greatadmiration for Mrs Levy, who was dying of cancer.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That was the worst of the Bar, everyonesaid; one
had to wait.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Them thats been good to me, them I remember . He
took out his large silk handkerchief and wiped his chinimpatiently.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then she went, creaking in her cheapshoes, to the
window and drew the curtains.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has come, Delia said to herself; it has come!
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