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“You find your office rather a fatiguing one, I fear, Miss Tulliver,” said Dr. Kenn.
“It is, rather,” said Maggie, simply, not being accustomed to simpler amiable denials of obvious facts.
“But I can tell Mrs. Kenn that you have disposed of her goods very quickly,” he added; “she will be very much obliged to you.”
“Oh, I have done nothing; the gentlemen came very fast to buy the dressing-gowns and embroidered waistcoats, but I think any of the other ladies would have sold more; I didn’t know what to say about them.”
Dr. Kenn smiled. “I hope I’m going to have you as a permanent parishioner now, Miss Tulliver; am I? You have been at a distance from us hitherto.”
“I have been a teacher in a school, and I’m going into another Maillot Athletic Bilbao Pas CHer situation of the same kind very soon.”
“Ah? I was hoping you would remain among your friends, who are all in this neighborhood, I believe.”
“Oh, I must go,” said Maggie, earnestly, looking at Dr. Dame Edmonton Oilers Kenn with an expression of reliance, as if she had told him her history in those three words. It was one of those moments of implicit revelation which will sometimes happen even between people who meet quite transiently — on a mile’s journey, perhaps, or when resting by the wayside. There is always this possibility of a word or look from a stranger to keep alive the Yaya Toure Drakt sense of human brotherhood.
Dr. Kenn’s ear and eye took in all the signs that this brief confidence of Maggie’s was charged with meaning.
“I understand,” he said; “you feel it right to go. But that will not prevent our meeting again, I hope; it will not prevent my knowing you better, if I can be of any service to you.”
He put out his hand and pressed hers kindly before he turned away.
“She has some trouble or other at heart,” he thought. “Poor child! she looks as if she might turn out to be one of
‘The souls by nature pitched too high,
By suffering plunged too low.’
“There’s something wonderfully honest in those beautiful eyes.”
It may be surprising that Maggie, among whose Karim Benzema Tröja many imperfections an excessive delight in admiration and acknowledged supremacy were not absent now, any more than when she was instructing the gypsies with a view toward achieving a royal position among them, was not more elated on a day when she had had the tribute of so many looks and smiles, together with that satisfactory consciousness which had necessarily come from being taken before Lucy’s chevalglass, and made to look at the full length of her tall beauty, crowned by the night of her massy hair. Maggie had smiled at herself Halpa North Face Vest then, and for the moment had forgotten everything in the sense of her own beauty. If that state of mind could have lasted, her choice would have been to have Stephen Guest at her feet, offering her a life filled with Seattle Seahawks Hattar all luxuries, with daily incense of adoration near and Beats Solo distant, and with all possibilities of culture |
