ke to say—I t .
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e looked at eacher.
shall we do? he asked me.
I did not know.
I must to . I must t sell Gentleman— ster. to find us. t see you come back ve, t be sure. eve urning. Oh,
if only Id never taken t une. Lucks like tide: it turns, ts faster and cant be stopped.
Dont say it! cried C you?
You cant c luck like t. t you can do is, try and outface it. Outface it?
I to t t one ? myself be frigy I t o at all. Give me my knife. e are going over.
ood, open-mout took and led aircase. A man and a girl stood at ttom, quarrelling; but turned to c by. Pero . treet s of grit and paper, t still . My rinder; but it oo late to care. I ran o Mr Ibbss door, knocked on it, t ep o ter a minute, just an inch.
Youve come too late. It ys voice. Mr Ibbs says— Os you again. now? Changed your mind?
ttle furtood, and licked ys. t me; and hen she screamed.
Mrs Sucksby! I cried. I made a c ty flying. I caugo ted again. I ran to tain and knocked it back. tumbled, and Cumbled the end,
and t open. t, and smoke, and lig made me . o ting. opped, and flung up ; be table, in Mrs Sucksbys great chair, was Maud.
Beneato bark at tion. Noo give me back. ttled. I flinced my arms. tc seen my knife before, t now. Mrs Sucksby opened h. She said,
Sue, I— Sue—
ty came running in behind me, from Mr Ibbss shop.
o fists. Samped. Youve got some cc about broke Mrs Sucksbys !
Keep off me, I said, in astonis, t; for t it. Sy, after all. to shake.
Mrs Sucksby, I said, turning to old you lies. I never— t aken me all time—all time, since May!—to get back to you.
Mrs Sucksby . S miging t. S Mr Ibbs, and t Maud. to come to ook teps across tc me, tight.
Dear girl, she said.
S ruck my c was Mauds diamond brooch.
O it. And I struggled ah jewels and lies!
Dear girl, said Mrs Sucksby again.
But I looked at Maud. S flincar