Chapter Sixteen (第2/2页)
cried.
Mrs Sucksby. S Mr Ibbs.
Sit doly. Jo. I o Charles.
d beo to it, sry
aken off ing t. to t seemed to glow.
Jo him and laughed.
You leave one, more ever t back to you, free of—of the madhouse.
S o , did o pay . S we, Mr Ibbs?
Mr Ibbs said nothing. Maud leaned from her chair.
You must go, C go from me. trange. You must botleman es back.
I curled my lip at leman, I said. Gentleman. You s very quick.
t w I was.
You are not, I said.
S t toget jingle of metal: s, to like to ill; ted my gaze. I said, in a eady voice:
as being a lady not enoug you must e to take t were ours?
S answer.
ell? I said.
So try to draake t them!
You t them?
Mrs Sucksby stepped forowards Mauds.
Let tay! she cried.
me, t of laugs silver, in ts silver, pared one o , and leaned ed on ty, sc a tumbler of brandy, urn of te undone me.
Like Mr Ibbs, sook out a ave , and sat.
e beside me, so me. Put do old knife, you? And tated: , afraid of Miss Lilly? ito mind you? e, sit.
I looked again at Maud. I , in t moved about, and I sa of it and pale and tired s Mrs Sucksbys cry, sill; ill sed t of it rands of o it. to o glitter.
I sat, and put took my hand. I said,
I have been done very wrong, Mrs Sucksby.
Mrs Sucksby slo, she said.
God knoold you! trut art. t me up, beto take me in to be her—
Joled. Double-cross, —oh! he laughed. You pigeon!
I did not seem to matter. Mrs Sucksby looked, not at me, but at our joiunned her.
A bad business, sly.
orse t! I cried. O and starved me! I ime, so h—!
S before her face.
No more, dear girl! No more. I t bear to .
Did torture you, ongs? asked Jo you in a strait-coat?
t me in a tartan gos of—
Of iron?
I ated, t Charles.
Boots laces, I said. t t, if they gave me laces, I should hang myself. And my hair—
Did t it? said Dainty, sitting, putting a —from Jo off?
I ated again, t to my head.
ears. O it wow!
ts all rig to knourned again to Mrs Sucksby, and touy dress. tole, I said. And to London. My only t o get back o you. For o me in t of t Gentleman must old you, about , I had died.
Sook my , s of it.
But I knew you would ask for my body.
ouldnt I! Straight off!
t ed you all.
oot you the nerve.
I looked into Mrs Sucksbys face. But I kne believe it, I said, of your own daugigil you found me.
Dear girl, I— O you, too, in anot my sear Joy
Did you, Mrs Sucksby? said Dainty.
My dear, I did. I sent out a man, fidentially
S Maud. But Maud lit mine, for sly and suddenly,
You look ill, Sue.
It ime s and— despite myself—I t of times s, so softly as t, a myself colour.
You do look done up, said Dainty. You look like you aint slept in a week.
I , I said.
to rise, you go upstairs no your omorroy will e and fix you up in one of your old gowns, and dress your hair—
Dont go to sleep ting oheres danger here.
I took up my knife again, and she drew her hand back. I said,
You t kno, in looking at you, Im not seeing danger ress moutreacherous eyes?
to I must spit t or s seem treac all. I turhe
blade took up t of t it darting across her cheek.
I came o kill you, I said.
Mrs Sucksby sed in . Maud kept tering gaze on mine.
You came to Briar, so do t. . .
t t suddenly tired, and sick. I felt all tc it uro Mrs Sucksby.
you sit, I said, and ease me? you knorick s to ttle it; a sounded like bluster, too. I looked around ty, s you like to so pieces, in my behalf?
S I! said Dainty. S. C my best pal, it sink. S my eye. Seems an a to be sud all. And brave? I done o taking stitc, t natural—
All rigy, said Mrs Sucksby quickly.
I looked again at Maud—at ear on a t o t it seemed all of a piece —above tle cage of .
I felt tears rise into my t.
You ake , and made it better.
I took it, s !
you? hy?
So speak. t Mrs Sucksby and her face ged.
For villainys sake, sly. For villainys sake. Because you ell lies, my eyes— My eyes— So rise. S flat again. Ric, after all, for our money, lo.
Sook up in it.
You got the money?
S t yet.
ts somet a s. I s . Mrs Sucksby, do you u least. Not a stinking t a we s!
But I did not teful to me. Mrs Sucksby said nothing. Maud said,
You s you like. I all—if you will only go from here, now, before Richard es back.
Go from ell me to? tell her?
Mrs Sucksby again passed a h.
t be rigo be t of, you migo keep out of Gentlemans me speak . Ill give aste of my temper, though!
S in a queer, ed ry at a smile—as s , I t, if s found out t Gentleman of t cards. I guessed s Mauds fortune, and mig. I couldnt er all, to her. I said,
ill you make me go? t like a c tcures on to
tairs e c, , from my o must doo be en. I ten it. On table be: I to till, t— I looked about me again. cill. Everyone ill, and g me.
ill you make me go, I said again to Mrs Sucksby, a ay? Norust t to send Dr Cie to me? ill you— ill you take ake t ?
Sleep beside me? said Mrs Sucksby quickly. old you t?
Red hairs?said John.
But Maud ed c it t tter!
Ive gly. Ive g everyt— God damn you!—th your own husband!
Sleep ounded. You dont suppose—?
Susie, said Mrs Sucksby, putting her hand upon me.
Sue, said Maud at time, leaning across table and also reac suppose o me? You dont to me, in anyt name? Dont you know I e you know I ed Briar?
ill you make out norembling s, t you only did w you did because he made you?
, not in the way you mean.
I said, ill you pretend, t you arent a swindling c?
She said, ill you?
And again, s s, and looked aer a moment I said, more quietly,
I ed it. I didnt smile, urned.
You think I did?
? You are an actress.-You are ag now!
Am I?
S, still ill falling s of taking it. t of tc dark. I looked at , or bruised. I said,
If you ed ?
to be me.
So you mig ans have—
?
Anyt know w. . .
Sly, would you have given up?
so steady and true; but I gre onrs Sucksby—of Joy, Mr Ibbs—all of td curious, ts t moment, I sao my o I , soohan be shamed by her now, I would die.
S. I took up t her hand.
Dont touc. I got to my feet. Dont any of you touy of you! Do you to cast me out again. I e you all! I ry!
I looked from face to face. Dainty o cry. Jo, open-moutonis his cheek. Maud nursed her bleeding fingers. Charles shook. Mrs Sucksby said,
Sue, put do you out? the idea! I—
topped. Ced his head. From Mr
Ibbss surning in a lock. ts; tling.
Gentleman! s Maud, at Mr Ibbs, at me. S up, and leao catc my arm. Sue, s. S a airs . . .?
But I did not ansleman led again, a lazy z tune, and c t ing into tle died. raighem.
me, and at my knife. ook off and began to un clot. I supposed you mig it anot noed a letter, from t fool Cie. ainly dragged ting me knoo recapture you before o. Bad publicity, wics run.
t clot aook out a cigarette.
Youre fug cool, I said. I was shing.
hey do.
Gentleman! said Mrs Sucksby. Listen to me. Sue old us terrible t you to go.
Do ie! I waved my knife. Cop him!
Gentleman te, but apart from t moved. uro look at a couple of doubtful steps towards o Charless hair.
So, Charley, he said.
Please, sir, said Charles.
You a villain.
Co tremble. to God, Mr Rivers, I never meant to!
tleman. roked C to , t know w. he blushed.
Sit down, John, said Mrs Sucksby.
and if I like.
Sit down, or Ill you.
me? ted to Gentleman and Cook teps, and struck ruck boto ween his elbows.
You old cow! ouc!
; but tears and o snivel. o t. C leman looked from oo t Maud iend amazement.
Is it doo me, small boys weep?
Fuck you, I aint small! said John.
ill you be quiet? said Maud, in s enough.
Charles wiped his nose. Yes, miss.
Gentleman leaned against t of till smoking. So, Suky, he said. You know all now.
I kno I kne, six monts all, to trust you.
Dear girl, said Mrs Sucksby quickly, lemans face. Dear girl, to let you.
Gentlemae from o blo its tip. ill for a sed of laugh—and shook his head.
S C, ly.
I t she had shamed him.
All rig. Sed ood, like a man on a raft—like so make too s t knife doo be y. aleman.
Mrs Sucksby, he said.
No-oo be ?
me. tell it to Sue, me ances, I dont quite care for t.
Circumstances? I said. You mean, your me to die? I s your bloody head off!
oo your voice at times? old you t?
I made a lu trutill beired, and tc flincood of t. t t. I put it do it doable—at table, just beyond t t there.
No t nicer? said Mrs Sucksby.
Joears Gentleman, but o me.
S for Miss Lilly just now, o kUl her.
Gentleman gazed at Maud, wo .
Jos a une.
Does sleman, slowly.
Jo up, said Mrs Sucksby. Gentleman, dont mind him.
rouble. Sue said a t le queerly about t me, and at Maud. S only, s, for thinking in!
tleman easily, sourly. I am longing to knoh.
So am I, said Mr Ibbs. quietly. Gentleman caught his eye, and raised a brow.
Sticky, you say, sir? too sticky, said Mr Ibbs. You think so?
Mr Ibbs gave a nod. Gentleman said, You t simpler? Are you mad? I said. t you see, ill do anyt let ie. Do o Mrs Sucksby. Dont you to Gentleman.
ed me to leave, tes ago!
I Mr Ibbs; who looked away.
Gentleman took off . Fuck me, ; and nicely. Its too his.
Fuck you, I said. You fug villain. You do ?
Like you, on a chair. Yes.
ed. You poor little bitch.
Ric to and able. Sen to me. t, and will? said John.
But Gentleman snorted again. tell me, o Maud, arted learning to be kind. s it to you, w Sue
kno till? And do you look at Mrs Sucksby? Dont say you care w sher.
So . No at ood, diamond brooc Maud, a her hand fall.
Gentlemans laugood very still.
s this? he said.
s w?said John.
Noy—
Oleman. Ocepped about table. to Maud, in aed sort of back from his brow.
No, !
You see notaking a step to me. Rig.
a fool Ive been, not to sooner! O you! I al t. Poor Maud! he laughed, properly. And, oh, Mrs Sucksby, poor you!
ts enoug spoke of!
Sook a step towards him.
Poor you, ill laugoo?
Mr Ibbs did not answer.
Knos. me. Know w?
I dont know, I said.
Knoill moving slo blaotered ime olemans face. I sao guide it. Mrs Sucksby sa too, I tarted, and then spoke quickly.
Susie, s you to go. take your pal and go. Im not going anywhere, I said.
No Susie, you stay, said Gentleman, in a ric of voice. Dont mind Mrs Sucksbys o you, after all? Ric pleading.
Gentleman, said Mrs Sucksby, ill on Maud. Dear boy. Be silent, will you? I am afraid.
Afraid? is beating perfectly quietly now, be.
At co the bodice of her dress.
Feel it! sion ell me I aint afraid!
Feel t? t your daugo do it, ice.
I ot say for certain . I kno, ook a step torike . I kno Maud and Mrs Sucksby reac. I do not k , taffeta and silk, t. Grace! Grace! it a queer to call; until I realised it we never heard used.
And so, it c see it o stagger. But I sort of groan.
me? range.
then I looked.
, too. omacood a little before noell you. Mrs Sucksby o ainly t , and me? he said again.
I dont know, she said.
I dont tood in t at last ook a coat and before e of h blood.
My God! hen.
Dainty shrieked.
Bring a lig!
Jo up t, surned suddenly crimsolemans coat and trousers , and Mrs Sucksbys taffeta gown was red and running where she had held him.
I alked, an table. It this. I grew sick.
No, I said. No, no!
Mrs Sucksby gripped Gentlemans arm. take your ill clutach.
I t.
take your hand away!
Sed to see . coat, a bubble—like a bubble of soap, but s of blood, t fell and struck ter or soup would make.
Dainty s wobbled. Fuck! Fuck! said John.
Set c. Fetco catg—
leman. !
ts and sig ood and looked on, o Gentlemans side and against time ook omaced. Fetc or a pot, sy ran to t up t t t it a doriking t of t, against te, and against t great dark eye—leman and greened.
O! , Im dying! Iering moan, t op. Oh, Jesus, save me!
touco tell of it.
Not like t like t. ? O! I need a surgeon. Do I?
Bring o Dainty; but he shook his head.
No liquor. A smoke, t, here.
o coat, and Jo out a packet of cigarettes, and anotches.
tes it at it ilemans.
Good boy, said Gentleman, coug te fell. Jo it up in trembling fingers a back beto— as if it er. Gentleman began to shake.
Maud. S moved siepping from o fall. S still as me, Jo Mr Ibbs, at me. and and cor. Bring a surgeon!
I ty took a step. Mr Ibbs caught her arm.
Neons , to this
house.
No men like t? cried Gentleman. tte fell. are you saying? Look at me! C! Dont you kno me! Im dying! Mrs Sucksby, you love me. Bring a man, I beg you.
Dear boy, be still, sill pressing too t. in pain and fear.
Damn you! ches! John—
Jo d to .
Joed again. Noted, h red, his cheek gleaming like lard.
Jo! Dont ask me!
Gentleman turo me. Suky! heyve killed me—
Neons, said Mr Ibbs again, w , and were done for.
take o treet, I said. t you? Call a doctor to treet.
too bad. Look at oo much blood.
t no filled t. Gentlemans moans o groer.
Damn you! ly. o cry. . here? Maud?
as pale as e we.
Maud? Maud? he said.
Shen she said, in a whisper: I am sorry. I am sorry.
God damn you! tle at later, a guso it—sa of t, and began tle, as if to raise ing about tc d made to draime in terror olemans lips and ed and ran. o Mr Ibbss so o o make op, o Lant Street:
Murder! help! help! Murder!
At t e! said Mr Ibbs. too late. ood and liste carried at first ronger, and I uood it sound of all, to us—ttle, rising and falling on ting wind; and drawing nearer.
turned, and came to Dainty. Dainty,
run! ood for a sed, t—the back way__
tearing ts from t go ead, to Gentlemans side.
e migake o Mrs Sucksby. me, and t Maud. e migake ween us, if we are quick.
Mrs Sucksby slemans oill bubbled at , and bubbled again.
Save yourself, so Joake Sue.
But go; and I kneill—t I Mr Ibbs. o te of t later t moely, in an old cigarette box. tcoat. to look about ts on to see be, t look at Gentleman or Mrs Sucksby. look at me— once me aside, to reac me for a porcelain cup; and tled sort of bark, he kicked him.
Meantles greleman lifted the er of his eye.
Do you ? he said weakly.
Dear boy, I do, said Mrs Sucksby. Sill k at his side.
sound is it?
S une, she said.
S me, and t Maud. You might run.
I said not from t now.
You know w follows?
S me, and t Maud, then closed her eyes. She sighed, as if weary.
to you once, dear girl, so lose you again—
You s lose me! I cried; and uanding. t Joilted his head.
hey e! he said.
Mr Ibbs no furt dark little court at t tleman, and at t of blood, and— to look for or to t kicked into t; ao do he Bh.
ty it? ts see how bad.
took lemans for t hey said,
t?
Maud moved, or took a step. But John moved quicker.
S, a ation. ruck before. ed ed. S. I saw her.
ed at Mrs Sucksby.
I sa act. I only said, —? and Maud, I t, —? or ait—!
But Mrs Sucksby rose from Gentlemans side. affeta dress o a broocip to . Sure of a murderess from one of the penny papers.
I do, s no I do. And t girls, and kno all about it; and have harmed no-one.
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cried.
Mrs Sucksby. S Mr Ibbs.
Sit doly. Jo. I o Charles.
d beo to it, sry
aken off ing t. to t seemed to glow.
Jo him and laughed.
You leave one, more ever t back to you, free of—of the madhouse.
S o , did o pay . S we, Mr Ibbs?
Mr Ibbs said nothing. Maud leaned from her chair.
You must go, C go from me. trange. You must botleman es back.
I curled my lip at leman, I said. Gentleman. You s very quick.
t w I was.
You are not, I said.
S t toget jingle of metal: s, to like to ill; ted my gaze. I said, in a eady voice:
as being a lady not enoug you must e to take t were ours?
S answer.
ell? I said.
So try to draake t them!
You t them?
Mrs Sucksby stepped forowards Mauds.
Let tay! she cried.
me, t of laugs silver, in ts silver, pared one o , and leaned ed on ty, sc a tumbler of brandy, urn of te undone me.
Like Mr Ibbs, sook out a ave , and sat.
e beside me, so me. Put do old knife, you? And tated: , afraid of Miss Lilly? ito mind you? e, sit.
I looked again at Maud. I , in t moved about, and I sa of it and pale and tired s Mrs Sucksbys cry, sill; ill sed t of it rands of o it. to o glitter.
I sat, and put took my hand. I said,
I have been done very wrong, Mrs Sucksby.
Mrs Sucksby slo, she said.
God knoold you! trut art. t me up, beto take me in to be her—
Joled. Double-cross, —oh! he laughed. You pigeon!
I did not seem to matter. Mrs Sucksby looked, not at me, but at our joiunned her.
A bad business, sly.
orse t! I cried. O and starved me! I ime, so h—!
S before her face.
No more, dear girl! No more. I t bear to .
Did torture you, ongs? asked Jo you in a strait-coat?
t me in a tartan gos of—
Of iron?
I ated, t Charles.
Boots laces, I said. t t, if they gave me laces, I should hang myself. And my hair—
Did t it? said Dainty, sitting, putting a —from Jo off?
I ated again, t to my head.
ears. O it wow!
ts all rig to knourned again to Mrs Sucksby, and touy dress. tole, I said. And to London. My only t o get back o you. For o me in t of t Gentleman must old you, about , I had died.
Sook my , s of it.
But I knew you would ask for my body.
ouldnt I! Straight off!
t ed you all.
oot you the nerve.
I looked into Mrs Sucksbys face. But I kne believe it, I said, of your own daugigil you found me.
Dear girl, I— O you, too, in anot my sear Joy
Did you, Mrs Sucksby? said Dainty.
My dear, I did. I sent out a man, fidentially
S Maud. But Maud lit mine, for sly and suddenly,
You look ill, Sue.
It ime s and— despite myself—I t of times s, so softly as t, a myself colour.
You do look done up, said Dainty. You look like you aint slept in a week.
I , I said.
to rise, you go upstairs no your omorroy will e and fix you up in one of your old gowns, and dress your hair—
Dont go to sleep ting oheres danger here.
I took up my knife again, and she drew her hand back. I said,
You t kno, in looking at you, Im not seeing danger ress moutreacherous eyes?
to I must spit t or s seem treac all. I turhe
blade took up t of t it darting across her cheek.
I came o kill you, I said.
Mrs Sucksby sed in . Maud kept tering gaze on mine.
You came to Briar, so do t. . .
t t suddenly tired, and sick. I felt all tc it uro Mrs Sucksby.
you sit, I said, and ease me? you knorick s to ttle it; a sounded like bluster, too. I looked around ty, s you like to so pieces, in my behalf?
S I! said Dainty. S. C my best pal, it sink. S my eye. Seems an a to be sud all. And brave? I done o taking stitc, t natural—
All rigy, said Mrs Sucksby quickly.
I looked again at Maud—at ear on a t o t it seemed all of a piece —above tle cage of .
I felt tears rise into my t.
You ake , and made it better.
I took it, s !
you? hy?
So speak. t Mrs Sucksby and her face ged.
For villainys sake, sly. For villainys sake. Because you ell lies, my eyes— My eyes— So rise. S flat again. Ric, after all, for our money, lo.
Sook up in it.
You got the money?
S t yet.
ts somet a s. I s . Mrs Sucksby, do you u least. Not a stinking t a we s!
But I did not teful to me. Mrs Sucksby said nothing. Maud said,
You s you like. I all—if you will only go from here, now, before Richard es back.
Go from ell me to? tell her?
Mrs Sucksby again passed a h.
t be rigo be t of, you migo keep out of Gentlemans me speak . Ill give aste of my temper, though!
S in a queer, ed ry at a smile—as s , I t, if s found out t Gentleman of t cards. I guessed s Mauds fortune, and mig. I couldnt er all, to her. I said,
ill you make me go? t like a c tcures on to
tairs e c, , from my o must doo be en. I ten it. On table be: I to till, t— I looked about me again. cill. Everyone ill, and g me.
ill you make me go, I said again to Mrs Sucksby, a ay? Norust t to send Dr Cie to me? ill you— ill you take ake t ?
Sleep beside me? said Mrs Sucksby quickly. old you t?
Red hairs?said John.
But Maud ed c it t tter!
Ive gly. Ive g everyt— God damn you!—th your own husband!
Sleep ounded. You dont suppose—?
Susie, said Mrs Sucksby, putting her hand upon me.
Sue, said Maud at time, leaning across table and also reac suppose o me? You dont to me, in anyt name? Dont you know I e you know I ed Briar?
ill you make out norembling s, t you only did w you did because he made you?
, not in the way you mean.
I said, ill you pretend, t you arent a swindling c?
She said, ill you?
And again, s s, and looked aer a moment I said, more quietly,
I ed it. I didnt smile, urned.
You think I did?
? You are an actress.-You are ag now!
Am I?
S, still ill falling s of taking it. t of tc dark. I looked at , or bruised. I said,
If you ed ?
to be me.
So you mig ans have—
?
Anyt know w. . .
Sly, would you have given up?
so steady and true; but I gre onrs Sucksby—of Joy, Mr Ibbs—all of td curious, ts t moment, I sao my o I , soohan be shamed by her now, I would die.
S. I took up t her hand.
Dont touc. I got to my feet. Dont any of you touy of you! Do you to cast me out again. I e you all! I ry!
I looked from face to face. Dainty o cry. Jo, open-moutonis his cheek. Maud nursed her bleeding fingers. Charles shook. Mrs Sucksby said,
Sue, put do you out? the idea! I—
topped. Ced his head. From Mr
Ibbss surning in a lock. ts; tling.
Gentleman! s Maud, at Mr Ibbs, at me. S up, and leao catc my arm. Sue, s. S a airs . . .?
But I did not ansleman led again, a lazy z tune, and c t ing into tle died. raighem.
me, and at my knife. ook off and began to un clot. I supposed you mig it anot noed a letter, from t fool Cie. ainly dragged ting me knoo recapture you before o. Bad publicity, wics run.
t clot aook out a cigarette.
Youre fug cool, I said. I was shing.
hey do.
Gentleman! said Mrs Sucksby. Listen to me. Sue old us terrible t you to go.
Do ie! I waved my knife. Cop him!
Gentleman te, but apart from t moved. uro look at a couple of doubtful steps towards o Charless hair.
So, Charley, he said.
Please, sir, said Charles.
You a villain.
Co tremble. to God, Mr Rivers, I never meant to!
tleman. roked C to , t know w. he blushed.
Sit down, John, said Mrs Sucksby.
and if I like.
Sit down, or Ill you.
me? ted to Gentleman and Cook teps, and struck ruck boto ween his elbows.
You old cow! ouc!
; but tears and o snivel. o t. C leman looked from oo t Maud iend amazement.
Is it doo me, small boys weep?
Fuck you, I aint small! said John.
ill you be quiet? said Maud, in s enough.
Charles wiped his nose. Yes, miss.
Gentleman leaned against t of till smoking. So, Suky, he said. You know all now.
I kno I kne, six monts all, to trust you.
Dear girl, said Mrs Sucksby quickly, lemans face. Dear girl, to let you.
Gentlemae from o blo its tip. ill for a sed of laugh—and shook his head.
S C, ly.
I t she had shamed him.
All rig. Sed ood, like a man on a raft—like so make too s t knife doo be y. aleman.
Mrs Sucksby, he said.
No-oo be ?
me. tell it to Sue, me ances, I dont quite care for t.
Circumstances? I said. You mean, your me to die? I s your bloody head off!
oo your voice at times? old you t?
I made a lu trutill beired, and tc flincood of t. t t. I put it do it doable—at table, just beyond t t there.
No t nicer? said Mrs Sucksby.
Joears Gentleman, but o me.
S for Miss Lilly just now, o kUl her.
Gentleman gazed at Maud, wo .
Jos a une.
Does sleman, slowly.
Jo up, said Mrs Sucksby. Gentleman, dont mind him.
rouble. Sue said a t le queerly about t me, and at Maud. S only, s, for thinking in!
tleman easily, sourly. I am longing to knoh.
So am I, said Mr Ibbs. quietly. Gentleman caught his eye, and raised a brow.
Sticky, you say, sir? too sticky, said Mr Ibbs. You think so?
Mr Ibbs gave a nod. Gentleman said, You t simpler? Are you mad? I said. t you see, ill do anyt let ie. Do o Mrs Sucksby. Dont you to Gentleman.
ed me to leave, tes ago!
I Mr Ibbs; who looked away.
Gentleman took off . Fuck me, ; and nicely. Its too his.
Fuck you, I said. You fug villain. You do ?
Like you, on a chair. Yes.
ed. You poor little bitch.
Ric to and able. Sen to me. t, and will? said John.
But Gentleman snorted again. tell me, o Maud, arted learning to be kind. s it to you, w Sue
kno till? And do you look at Mrs Sucksby? Dont say you care w sher.
So . No at ood, diamond brooc Maud, a her hand fall.
Gentlemans laugood very still.
s this? he said.
s w?said John.
Noy—
Oleman. Ocepped about table. to Maud, in aed sort of back from his brow.
No, !
You see notaking a step to me. Rig.
a fool Ive been, not to sooner! O you! I al t. Poor Maud! he laughed, properly. And, oh, Mrs Sucksby, poor you!
ts enoug spoke of!
Sook a step towards him.
Poor you, ill laugoo?
Mr Ibbs did not answer.
Knos. me. Know w?
I dont know, I said.
Knoill moving slo blaotered ime olemans face. I sao guide it. Mrs Sucksby sa too, I tarted, and then spoke quickly.
Susie, s you to go. take your pal and go. Im not going anywhere, I said.
No Susie, you stay, said Gentleman, in a ric of voice. Dont mind Mrs Sucksbys o you, after all? Ric pleading.
Gentleman, said Mrs Sucksby, ill on Maud. Dear boy. Be silent, will you? I am afraid.
Afraid? is beating perfectly quietly now, be.
At co the bodice of her dress.
Feel it! sion ell me I aint afraid!
Feel t? t your daugo do it, ice.
I ot say for certain . I kno, ook a step torike . I kno Maud and Mrs Sucksby reac. I do not k , taffeta and silk, t. Grace! Grace! it a queer to call; until I realised it we never heard used.
And so, it c see it o stagger. But I sort of groan.
me? range.
then I looked.
, too. omacood a little before noell you. Mrs Sucksby o ainly t , and me? he said again.
I dont know, she said.
I dont tood in t at last ook a coat and before e of h blood.
My God! hen.
Dainty shrieked.
Bring a lig!
Jo up t, surned suddenly crimsolemans coat and trousers , and Mrs Sucksbys taffeta gown was red and running where she had held him.
I alked, an table. It this. I grew sick.
No, I said. No, no!
Mrs Sucksby gripped Gentlemans arm. take your ill clutach.
I t.
take your hand away!
Sed to see . coat, a bubble—like a bubble of soap, but s of blood, t fell and struck ter or soup would make.
Dainty s wobbled. Fuck! Fuck! said John.
Set c. Fetco catg—
leman. !
ts and sig ood and looked on, o Gentlemans side and against time ook omaced. Fetc or a pot, sy ran to t up t t t it a doriking t of t, against te, and against t great dark eye—leman and greened.
O! , Im dying! Iering moan, t op. Oh, Jesus, save me!
touco tell of it.
Not like t like t. ? O! I need a surgeon. Do I?
Bring o Dainty; but he shook his head.
No liquor. A smoke, t, here.
o coat, and Jo out a packet of cigarettes, and anotches.
tes it at it ilemans.
Good boy, said Gentleman, coug te fell. Jo it up in trembling fingers a back beto— as if it er. Gentleman began to shake.
Maud. S moved siepping from o fall. S still as me, Jo Mr Ibbs, at me. and and cor. Bring a surgeon!
I ty took a step. Mr Ibbs caught her arm.
Neons , to this
house.
No men like t? cried Gentleman. tte fell. are you saying? Look at me! C! Dont you kno me! Im dying! Mrs Sucksby, you love me. Bring a man, I beg you.
Dear boy, be still, sill pressing too t. in pain and fear.
Damn you! ches! John—
Jo d to .
Joed again. Noted, h red, his cheek gleaming like lard.
Jo! Dont ask me!
Gentleman turo me. Suky! heyve killed me—
Neons, said Mr Ibbs again, w , and were done for.
take o treet, I said. t you? Call a doctor to treet.
too bad. Look at oo much blood.
t no filled t. Gentlemans moans o groer.
Damn you! ly. o cry. . here? Maud?
as pale as e we.
Maud? Maud? he said.
Shen she said, in a whisper: I am sorry. I am sorry.
God damn you! tle at later, a guso it—sa of t, and began tle, as if to raise ing about tc d made to draime in terror olemans lips and ed and ran. o Mr Ibbss so o o make op, o Lant Street:
Murder! help! help! Murder!
At t e! said Mr Ibbs. too late. ood and liste carried at first ronger, and I uood it sound of all, to us—ttle, rising and falling on ting wind; and drawing nearer.
turned, and came to Dainty. Dainty,
run! ood for a sed, t—the back way__
tearing ts from t go ead, to Gentlemans side.
e migake o Mrs Sucksby. me, and t Maud. e migake ween us, if we are quick.
Mrs Sucksby slemans oill bubbled at , and bubbled again.
Save yourself, so Joake Sue.
But go; and I kneill—t I Mr Ibbs. o te of t later t moely, in an old cigarette box. tcoat. to look about ts on to see be, t look at Gentleman or Mrs Sucksby. look at me— once me aside, to reac me for a porcelain cup; and tled sort of bark, he kicked him.
Meantles greleman lifted the er of his eye.
Do you ? he said weakly.
Dear boy, I do, said Mrs Sucksby. Sill k at his side.
sound is it?
S une, she said.
S me, and t Maud. You might run.
I said not from t now.
You know w follows?
S me, and t Maud, then closed her eyes. She sighed, as if weary.
to you once, dear girl, so lose you again—
You s lose me! I cried; and uanding. t Joilted his head.
hey e! he said.
Mr Ibbs no furt dark little court at t tleman, and at t of blood, and— to look for or to t kicked into t; ao do he Bh.
ty it? ts see how bad.
took lemans for t hey said,
t?
Maud moved, or took a step. But John moved quicker.
S, a ation. ruck before. ed ed. S. I saw her.
ed at Mrs Sucksby.
I sa act. I only said, —? and Maud, I t, —? or ait—!
But Mrs Sucksby rose from Gentlemans side. affeta dress o a broocip to . Sure of a murderess from one of the penny papers.
I do, s no I do. And t girls, and kno all about it; and have harmed no-one.
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