I cannot bear to be let en t dress. You like it, dear girl? ser. t last. Noun ts? Miss Lilly?—Dainty, you go on first. tairs are tricky, I se for Miss Lilly to take a tumble.
Sy passes before me and, after a second, I folloill I o Briar. t of tairs, t I ougo take? I am not sure. I cannot see. Dainty raordinary sound—a sound, like trembling, to silence. I start, and turn. Mrs Sucksby urned. Go on, you old bird! s. And to me, more sly: Not frigs only Mr Ibbss aged sister, t is kept to o the horrors.
S and en doairs—my limbs ac, and my breaty s at ttom. to fill it. In o tcreet-door bes across it. I sloep. But toucs rigep again, and almost stumble.
tcting at table playing at dice. t t! y, say it was you and Ill kiss you.
Ill bruise your eyes, get my ired. Get out of t ctle er, and let down.
S ing tcrying t.—Keep ts out, sching her.
Jos ty seat. Come, Maud, beside me. And if you to fly at my eyes—
as you did, you kno to knock you down again.
Jo you make so free make free h yours—you hear me?
Ric answer. us be friends again, hmm?
s o me, and I dodge it, dras aening of tc care, I say, to be t a friend of yours. I dont care to be t a friend to any of you. I come among you because I must; because Mrs Sucksby , and I life left in me to t , remember the you all.
And I sit, not in ty place beside in t rocking-c table. I sit in it and it creaks. Joy gaze quickly at Mrs Sucksby, imes.
And , forcing a laugake ts and ?
Gone off on a job, says Joook Charley ag.
Ss sleeping?
Gentleman give em a dose, half an hour ago.
Good boy, good boy. Keep it nice and quiet. S me. All rig of tea, per ans rock in my cs coffee, ty, up some er.—Like a cake, dear girl, to c do and fetc care for cakes?
t could be served to me be to me as ashes.
S a mout, for poetry! As for the cake, now—? I look away.
Dainty sets about making ticks, and strikes tte. tobacco