PART I Chapter One (第2/2页)
scarlet face from s mouth.
Gentleman! sarted s free by Joo Gentleman and put . a turn you gave us! Dainty, take a taper to t ter on t.
e t you leman came into t.
I believe I am turned blue, docoat, o steam. oget aken t c coat. I kudying t te; but terfeits.
ter as Dainty sao ts. Gentleman looked about ill rubbing ogether and nodding.
how do you do, Mr Ibbs? he called easily. how do you do, lads?
Mr Ibbs said, Very ulip. t ansher boy laughed.
Boys like t al men like Gentleman are nancies.
Jooo, but louder tleman looked at tle tick, your monkey?
Joook alian. Now, leman, o his nose. You kiss my arse, he said.
I? said Gentleman, smiling. Dainty, and sooped to Cer. leman, rising, brus will do.
t and stood at Mrs Sucksbys chair.
hallo, Mrs S, he said.
tself quiet. Mrs Sucksby leman caug up and kissed it—first at t tips. Mrs Sucksby said,
Get up out of t tleman sit down.
Joe, took Daintys stool. Gentleman sat, and spread oall, and -and-ty. Beside six.
Mrs Sucksby kept her gaze, and smiled.
ell, well, he said. hows business?
Pretty s, sill, and sted it as so pat me. Gentleman o it.
And ttle bud, farm, or is it family?
Farm, of course, she said.
A he-bud, or a she-bud?
A w I shall be bringing up by hand.
Gentleman leaowards her.
Lucky boy! he said, and winked.
Mrs Sucksby cried, Ourned pink as a rose. You saucebox!
Nancy or not, ainly make a lady blusleman, because —had been,
o a real gents scher and a
jster__all s broke. he had had
money once, and lost it all gambling; of tune; and so o get moook to t family, t in him.
e ter le Paris; a year putting Frengliso Freng tly different eacime, and pinning different titles on tory pass as ty brand-nely, ty, and seem as t. te o some ric every time tock from terfeit banks. ed on o Lant Street about once a year, bringing poke to Mr Ibbs, and pig up bad , cautions, and tips.
I supposed seemed, did Mrs Sucksby, for once y ea, , ss cradle and smoot across her lap and said,
ell noleman, t. e didnt look for you for anotwo. he look of?
Gentleman shing for Mr Ibbs, I am afraid.
, not, Mr Ibbs?
Very sad, said Mr Ibbs, from the brazier.
Mrs Sucksby greial. hen, for me?
But Gentleman shook his head again.
Not for you, eit for you; not faribaldi for Dainty, nor for Phe boys; nor even for Charley ag.
t me, and taken up ttered playing-cards, and ing to ts. y, and Mrs Sucksby, still quite pink in t t once reacarted s kind of man, w always be busy.
ell, Sue, ill upon me. his eyes were a very clear blue.
ell, w? I answered.
do you say to ts you Ive e for.
.
Gentleman nodded. I hing for you. A proposal.
A proposal! said P. Look out, Sue, s to marry you!
Dainty screamed, and tleman bliook last, and leao Mrs Sucksby to say,
Get rid of our friends at t keep Joy: I s their help.
Mrs Sucksby ated, t Mr Ibbs; and Mr Ibbs said at once, Riged so e a s, o drop t s into ter, one by one. Listen to t. Nohe gold know?
Go on, Uncle and turned up o me, to Joy and Mrs Sucksby. to Gentleman tchem go by.
atc again.
Mr Ibbs turea—splas, as Dainty man. t of team, to mix ed gold, t and teaming greatcoat. ter upon te. Jo, pig songue. Mr Ibbs able, our faces and ; but t of the room was in shadow.
For a minute, no-one spoke. Gentleman still and cc of all: ilted he barrel of a gun.
So, my son, s tory?
Gentleman looked up.
tory, ory is took out a card, and laid it, face-up, on table. It . An old man—a s. ain out-of-t of ain out-of-te s, and cares for not for ts call it, a diary. It is a diary of all ures, too—aken a mind to , i a o t: Jack of Spades—a smart young man, to tion; and one particular smart young man—being at t time ratoo ttle lig-of-t of employment, bed and board provided—replies to tisement, is examined, and found fit.
t young man being yourself, said Mr Ibbs.
t young man being me. !
And try, said Joaken up ilemans story despite s say its busting reasure. And you
mean to force ts and cs. You o Mr Ibbs for a loan of nippers and a jilt; and you Sue— eyes, seen butter—for your ary.
Gentleman tilted easing sort of hen:
Cold as ice! ry is a damnable place: tgaged to t a rug or a vase or piece of plate for, Im afraid. t eats like us.
t, tig, tas te a paper leaving all of it to you; and nole of poison—
Gentleman shook his head.
Not a ounce of poison? said John, looking hopeful.
Not an ounot a scruple. And no money in t in t least. ly and so queerly, moneys for. But t live alone. Look ;
ts.
heh, heh, said John, growing sly. A wife, very game.
But Gentleman shook his head again.
A daugto? said John.
Not a a daugleman, me, say Sues years. In looks, say anding and knoly shy.
A flat! said Joell me s least. Sleman, nodding. But only as a caterpillar is rie is certain, t touc; but it es ion attac see a penny till ter, to a cousin. If she
takes a roked te finger—shes rich as a queen.
spoken, all time. Gentleman heard him now, looked up, and held his gaze.
ten tly. Five the funds.
A coal in t pop. Jole toot Mrs Sucksby, but and ook a sip from ea, in a sidering way.
til bet t ea was swallowed.
Close enougleman, nodding, moving back. ary of o a streted into a lady. sort of smile. I t, tart ures ting. Ss lessons, er. Noo fake my ell a pastel from a pig. But sakes to ru—oeaceaco design. tercolours. , th week—
Fifth week, you jiggles her! said John.
Gentleman closed his eyes.
Fift may sit in a room, leman tutor, alone? e ime—c red in time my fingers stray too near oo le urns out s fever—is at t dying of it, poor bitc too busy to sit at lessons. t end, ts are left to dry upon tte. No supper, at her
uncles side; and sometimes, if I pass her chamber door, I hear her sighing.
And just, said Mr Ibbs, as you ting on so nicely.
Just so, said Gentleman. Just so.
Poor lady! said Dainty. ears in t anyte a peac the face?
Gentleman looked careless. Sh a shrug.
Joo fill her eye!
I so fill yours, said Gentleman, steadily. t, I mean.
Joo . I so see you try it!
Mr Ibbs lifted s enoug , before ladies and kids! Jo doop fug about. Gentleman, you promised us your story; o our point, o ?
Joool, t. Gentleman aken out a packet of cigarettes. e ed, . e co table again and toug straigheir edges.
You t, is. apped ts. I aim to marry take une. I aim to steal o one side—from under o doing it already, as you s of girl, and t be trusted to ake some clever, , o collect a set of bindings for t to send Sue back before me. I to set s help me woo her.
my eye. ill played idly h one pale hand. Now he lowered his voice.
And t I s me. I knour s back. I must only marry jiggle ake ing, to tes. I said, s I to be sure. I so keep o persuade o t.
te and, as tur is, save Mrs Sucksby. Sened, saying notleman spoke. I ctle of ea out of o about t to ory on. S tea, s ainly, I dont believe I ever kne as hers.
No Gentleman, and finally spoke.
he girls in England? hy my Sue?
Because srust o say, a bad girl, not too nice about ts of the law.
S, to cut the shine?
Again me; but ill spoke to her.
Sake any of ttle ladys bits and frocks and je she likes.
t it over. do you say? last—to me, time. And then,
you see ttle time I o a. I must get a girl soon. I s to be you, Sue. I s to be you, more t if it is not to be, tell me quickly, her.
Dainty , said Jo. Dainty you, Daint?—for a lady in a great Peckham.
As I recall, said Mr Ibbs, drinking ea, Dainty lost t place tting a -pin to the ladys arm.
Se, said Dainty, and got my dander up. t sound like a bitc, you said so. I could maid for a flat.
It ly. And sill aint said.
t me; and turned my kno seems a rum sort of plot to me. Set me up, as maid to a lady? to do?
e teacleman. Dainty teac be? You must only sit and simper, and s.
I said, Suppose t me for me?
But of t. of everyt to pass me off as ers cy girl e on imes. take me then, for his sake.
e you a cer—sign it Lady Fanny of Bum Street, somet—s knoter. Sy, doesnt know London from Jerusalem. ho she ask?
I dont know, I said again. Suppose s care for you, so much as you are hoping?
. ell, be permitted by noo know when a green girl likes me.
Suppose, said Mrs Sucksby t like you quite
enougurns out another Miss Bamber or Miss
Finch?
Miss Bamber and Miss Fied. But ed. S, urn out like t. tious fat page of o liking me enoughink she will.
Enougo do a flit, from her uncles house?
Its a grim house, he answered, firl of her years.
But its t you, said Mr Ibbs. You picked up bits and pieces of Lay, sake and as quiet as you like: ake t for buttons, then.
But and me, said Gentleman slyly.
Dainty looked blank. Johe jiggling, he said.
S hen.
Dainty gaped more than ever.
Never mind it, said Mr Ibbs, lifting o Gentleman: Its tricky. Unonly tricky.
I dont say its not. But take our c o lose? If not will be a holiday for Sue.
Jo caught.
I bit my lip. . But it so muc troubled me. You ot be a troubling over I sure I ed any kind of sure I cared for it ao visit ry as quiet and queer, and t eitons ipsies.
on girl? S be like Dainty, oucimes
violent. S be really mad. S try and ttle me; and t, for miles and miles, to cross treet to spit on you, if you were on fire.
I said, ts she like. You said shes queer in her head.
Not queer, said Gentleman. Only ural. S from t wo sharpen you up, she had—no-one.
Dainty looked at droo beat er till she died. She said, in a whisper:
Aint it terribly leman, o do? I dont believe any of us it, before t moment. Noy said it, and I gazed about me, and nobody ch my eye.
tleman laughed.
icked? y, of course its its o tune of fifteen t ts a s tune, got, it ly? Dont t! Money never is. It is got, by families like y backs broken for every shilling made. You have heard, have you, of Robin hood? have I! she said.
ell, Sue and I saking gold from t back to t from.
Joo t people are yours! You to rob a lady, go and rob your oher.
My motleman, c up. s my moto do Mrs Sucksbys eye, and turo me. Oh, Sue, he said. I do beg your pardon.
Its all rig table, and again everyone gre. Per s: for, as I aeen years. Noy miles, cold and slippery o me.
I raised my eyes to his.
tly.
tll s, all right, said Mr Ibbs.
And all ty. O you look hem!
You s me—as simes before—and ill to be made.—I could almost . Your fortuill to be made; and ours, Sue, along . . .
And after all, s. une, e from no. could I say? I looked again at Gentleman. My beat . I said:
All rig. But for t t care for me and sends me a rouble .
ated, t over. Of course, t was all a ser a sed o me and I gave him mine. he pressed my fingers, and laughed.
Joen to one she es back g in a week, he said.
Ill e back dressed in a velvet goo o call me miss. ont he, Mrs Sucksby?
. Ill tear my oo, before I do t!
Ill tear it out first! I said.
I sound like a child. I was a child! Perhaps Mrs Sucksby was
t, too. For s, still gazing at me, lip. S roubled. I could almost have said, she was afraid.
Perhaps she was.
Or per noo follow.
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scarlet face from s mouth.
Gentleman! sarted s free by Joo Gentleman and put . a turn you gave us! Dainty, take a taper to t ter on t.
e t you leman came into t.
I believe I am turned blue, docoat, o steam. oget aken t c coat. I kudying t te; but terfeits.
ter as Dainty sao ts. Gentleman looked about ill rubbing ogether and nodding.
how do you do, Mr Ibbs? he called easily. how do you do, lads?
Mr Ibbs said, Very ulip. t ansher boy laughed.
Boys like t al men like Gentleman are nancies.
Jooo, but louder tleman looked at tle tick, your monkey?
Joook alian. Now, leman, o his nose. You kiss my arse, he said.
I? said Gentleman, smiling. Dainty, and sooped to Cer. leman, rising, brus will do.
t and stood at Mrs Sucksbys chair.
hallo, Mrs S, he said.
tself quiet. Mrs Sucksby leman caug up and kissed it—first at t tips. Mrs Sucksby said,
Get up out of t tleman sit down.
Joe, took Daintys stool. Gentleman sat, and spread oall, and -and-ty. Beside six.
Mrs Sucksby kept her gaze, and smiled.
ell, well, he said. hows business?
Pretty s, sill, and sted it as so pat me. Gentleman o it.
And ttle bud, farm, or is it family?
Farm, of course, she said.
A he-bud, or a she-bud?
A w I shall be bringing up by hand.
Gentleman leaowards her.
Lucky boy! he said, and winked.
Mrs Sucksby cried, Ourned pink as a rose. You saucebox!
Nancy or not, ainly make a lady blusleman, because —had been,
o a real gents scher and a
jster__all s broke. he had had
money once, and lost it all gambling; of tune; and so o get moook to t family, t in him.
e ter le Paris; a year putting Frengliso Freng tly different eacime, and pinning different titles on tory pass as ty brand-nely, ty, and seem as t. te o some ric every time tock from terfeit banks. ed on o Lant Street about once a year, bringing poke to Mr Ibbs, and pig up bad , cautions, and tips.
I supposed seemed, did Mrs Sucksby, for once y ea, , ss cradle and smoot across her lap and said,
ell noleman, t. e didnt look for you for anotwo. he look of?
Gentleman shing for Mr Ibbs, I am afraid.
, not, Mr Ibbs?
Very sad, said Mr Ibbs, from the brazier.
Mrs Sucksby greial. hen, for me?
But Gentleman shook his head again.
Not for you, eit for you; not faribaldi for Dainty, nor for Phe boys; nor even for Charley ag.
t me, and taken up ttered playing-cards, and ing to ts. y, and Mrs Sucksby, still quite pink in t t once reacarted s kind of man, w always be busy.
ell, Sue, ill upon me. his eyes were a very clear blue.
ell, w? I answered.
do you say to ts you Ive e for.
.
Gentleman nodded. I hing for you. A proposal.
A proposal! said P. Look out, Sue, s to marry you!
Dainty screamed, and tleman bliook last, and leao Mrs Sucksby to say,
Get rid of our friends at t keep Joy: I s their help.
Mrs Sucksby ated, t Mr Ibbs; and Mr Ibbs said at once, Riged so e a s, o drop t s into ter, one by one. Listen to t. Nohe gold know?
Go on, Uncle and turned up o me, to Joy and Mrs Sucksby. to Gentleman tchem go by.
atc again.
Mr Ibbs turea—splas, as Dainty man. t of team, to mix ed gold, t and teaming greatcoat. ter upon te. Jo, pig songue. Mr Ibbs able, our faces and ; but t of the room was in shadow.
For a minute, no-one spoke. Gentleman still and cc of all: ilted he barrel of a gun.
So, my son, s tory?
Gentleman looked up.
tory, ory is took out a card, and laid it, face-up, on table. It . An old man—a s. ain out-of-t of ain out-of-te s, and cares for not for ts call it, a diary. It is a diary of all ures, too—aken a mind to , i a o t: Jack of Spades—a smart young man, to tion; and one particular smart young man—being at t time ratoo ttle lig-of-t of employment, bed and board provided—replies to tisement, is examined, and found fit.
t young man being yourself, said Mr Ibbs.
t young man being me. !
And try, said Joaken up ilemans story despite s say its busting reasure. And you
mean to force ts and cs. You o Mr Ibbs for a loan of nippers and a jilt; and you Sue— eyes, seen butter—for your ary.
Gentleman tilted easing sort of hen:
Cold as ice! ry is a damnable place: tgaged to t a rug or a vase or piece of plate for, Im afraid. t eats like us.
t, tig, tas te a paper leaving all of it to you; and nole of poison—
Gentleman shook his head.
Not a ounce of poison? said John, looking hopeful.
Not an ounot a scruple. And no money in t in t least. ly and so queerly, moneys for. But t live alone. Look ;
ts.
heh, heh, said John, growing sly. A wife, very game.
But Gentleman shook his head again.
A daugto? said John.
Not a a daugleman, me, say Sues years. In looks, say anding and knoly shy.
A flat! said Joell me s least. Sleman, nodding. But only as a caterpillar is rie is certain, t touc; but it es ion attac see a penny till ter, to a cousin. If she
takes a roked te finger—shes rich as a queen.
spoken, all time. Gentleman heard him now, looked up, and held his gaze.
ten tly. Five the funds.
A coal in t pop. Jole toot Mrs Sucksby, but and ook a sip from ea, in a sidering way.
til bet t ea was swallowed.
Close enougleman, nodding, moving back. ary of o a streted into a lady. sort of smile. I t, tart ures ting. Ss lessons, er. Noo fake my ell a pastel from a pig. But sakes to ru—oeaceaco design. tercolours. , th week—
Fifth week, you jiggles her! said John.
Gentleman closed his eyes.
Fift may sit in a room, leman tutor, alone? e ime—c red in time my fingers stray too near oo le urns out s fever—is at t dying of it, poor bitc too busy to sit at lessons. t end, ts are left to dry upon tte. No supper, at her
uncles side; and sometimes, if I pass her chamber door, I hear her sighing.
And just, said Mr Ibbs, as you ting on so nicely.
Just so, said Gentleman. Just so.
Poor lady! said Dainty. ears in t anyte a peac the face?
Gentleman looked careless. Sh a shrug.
Joo fill her eye!
I so fill yours, said Gentleman, steadily. t, I mean.
Joo . I so see you try it!
Mr Ibbs lifted s enoug , before ladies and kids! Jo doop fug about. Gentleman, you promised us your story; o our point, o ?
Joool, t. Gentleman aken out a packet of cigarettes. e ed, . e co table again and toug straigheir edges.
You t, is. apped ts. I aim to marry take une. I aim to steal o one side—from under o doing it already, as you s of girl, and t be trusted to ake some clever, , o collect a set of bindings for t to send Sue back before me. I to set s help me woo her.
my eye. ill played idly h one pale hand. Now he lowered his voice.
And t I s me. I knour s back. I must only marry jiggle ake ing, to tes. I said, s I to be sure. I so keep o persuade o t.
te and, as tur is, save Mrs Sucksby. Sened, saying notleman spoke. I ctle of ea out of o about t to ory on. S tea, s ainly, I dont believe I ever kne as hers.
No Gentleman, and finally spoke.
he girls in England? hy my Sue?
Because srust o say, a bad girl, not too nice about ts of the law.
S, to cut the shine?
Again me; but ill spoke to her.
Sake any of ttle ladys bits and frocks and je she likes.
t it over. do you say? last—to me, time. And then,
you see ttle time I o a. I must get a girl soon. I s to be you, Sue. I s to be you, more t if it is not to be, tell me quickly, her.
Dainty , said Jo. Dainty you, Daint?—for a lady in a great Peckham.
As I recall, said Mr Ibbs, drinking ea, Dainty lost t place tting a -pin to the ladys arm.
Se, said Dainty, and got my dander up. t sound like a bitc, you said so. I could maid for a flat.
It ly. And sill aint said.
t me; and turned my kno seems a rum sort of plot to me. Set me up, as maid to a lady? to do?
e teacleman. Dainty teac be? You must only sit and simper, and s.
I said, Suppose t me for me?
But of t. of everyt to pass me off as ers cy girl e on imes. take me then, for his sake.
e you a cer—sign it Lady Fanny of Bum Street, somet—s knoter. Sy, doesnt know London from Jerusalem. ho she ask?
I dont know, I said again. Suppose s care for you, so much as you are hoping?
. ell, be permitted by noo know when a green girl likes me.
Suppose, said Mrs Sucksby t like you quite
enougurns out another Miss Bamber or Miss
Finch?
Miss Bamber and Miss Fied. But ed. S, urn out like t. tious fat page of o liking me enoughink she will.
Enougo do a flit, from her uncles house?
Its a grim house, he answered, firl of her years.
But its t you, said Mr Ibbs. You picked up bits and pieces of Lay, sake and as quiet as you like: ake t for buttons, then.
But and me, said Gentleman slyly.
Dainty looked blank. Johe jiggling, he said.
S hen.
Dainty gaped more than ever.
Never mind it, said Mr Ibbs, lifting o Gentleman: Its tricky. Unonly tricky.
I dont say its not. But take our c o lose? If not will be a holiday for Sue.
Jo caught.
I bit my lip. . But it so muc troubled me. You ot be a troubling over I sure I ed any kind of sure I cared for it ao visit ry as quiet and queer, and t eitons ipsies.
on girl? S be like Dainty, oucimes
violent. S be really mad. S try and ttle me; and t, for miles and miles, to cross treet to spit on you, if you were on fire.
I said, ts she like. You said shes queer in her head.
Not queer, said Gentleman. Only ural. S from t wo sharpen you up, she had—no-one.
Dainty looked at droo beat er till she died. She said, in a whisper:
Aint it terribly leman, o do? I dont believe any of us it, before t moment. Noy said it, and I gazed about me, and nobody ch my eye.
tleman laughed.
icked? y, of course its its o tune of fifteen t ts a s tune, got, it ly? Dont t! Money never is. It is got, by families like y backs broken for every shilling made. You have heard, have you, of Robin hood? have I! she said.
ell, Sue and I saking gold from t back to t from.
Joo t people are yours! You to rob a lady, go and rob your oher.
My motleman, c up. s my moto do Mrs Sucksbys eye, and turo me. Oh, Sue, he said. I do beg your pardon.
Its all rig table, and again everyone gre. Per s: for, as I aeen years. Noy miles, cold and slippery o me.
I raised my eyes to his.
tly.
tll s, all right, said Mr Ibbs.
And all ty. O you look hem!
You s me—as simes before—and ill to be made.—I could almost . Your fortuill to be made; and ours, Sue, along . . .
And after all, s. une, e from no. could I say? I looked again at Gentleman. My beat . I said:
All rig. But for t t care for me and sends me a rouble .
ated, t over. Of course, t was all a ser a sed o me and I gave him mine. he pressed my fingers, and laughed.
Joen to one she es back g in a week, he said.
Ill e back dressed in a velvet goo o call me miss. ont he, Mrs Sucksby?
. Ill tear my oo, before I do t!
Ill tear it out first! I said.
I sound like a child. I was a child! Perhaps Mrs Sucksby was
t, too. For s, still gazing at me, lip. S roubled. I could almost have said, she was afraid.
Perhaps she was.
Or per noo follow.
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