Chapter Four (第2/2页)
ll Mr Rivers t s t any sort of disturbao be visited by he supper-hour came . . .
S on like te and a t off. Ser of an leman h her.
epped into t look at me at first. his eyes were all for Maud. he said,
Miss Lilly, you are kind to receive me ravel-stained and tumbled as I am. t is like you!
le. As for tains— a mark upon o . idy; little ring on finger, but apart from t his hands were bare and very .
to be—a leman. uro me at last, I found myself making sey and shy.
And , co I sepped toook my o me. Briar, Sue. I ress.
I said, I oo, sir.
She is a very good girl, said Maud. She is a very good girl, indeed.
S in a nervous, grateful kind of to a stranger, feeling pusion, about y.
Gentleman pressed my it fall. be good—I s be good, Miss Lilly—h you as her example.
rose again. You are too kind, she said.
at leman could but be, o be kind to,
No last s hen she laughed.
And I t t time, t . S—I kne, seeing and beside h her eyes on his.
Pigeons and geese. t clock sounded, and tarted and looked aleman said oo long. I s supper, I h your uncle?
itly.
to t out of it o remember me, and tomime, of patting at s, looking for s. o take it.
ed my . It Maud s overhear.
I said, Osey, and o do toget reend you try it: for I fear tsey; and Im certaihe wink.
I dont tleman noticed, isfied us. Maud looked o me, t silently to knoil ser, to own for dinner.
I sat and tossed t, bad s will gleam as well as good.
But I t it in a distented sort of know why.
t nigayed an er supper, reading to o Gentleman in t seen t s iles o remark on it as ook our meals. I still passed my evenings in tciless pantry; and pretty dull evenings t, . I doo find Margaret piece of roasting . , plumping up e diso cook for.
Sogs for tra ruffles. d made ting straig ool beside to one of Gentlemans boots.
o tiles? Mr Rivers says t, in London, you may see eleps. s in pens in ts back.
ell, bless my soul! said Mrs Stiles.
Sened a brooc t was a m brooc.
Eleps! I t. I could see t Gentleman o a coop of roosting ttering. tter-bred treating of a servant. t a fi a clever young person like tood up and told trut ts; t Mr Rivers o marry Maud and steal ood and told t, t. t I was mad.
tleman, over someone like me.
And of course, I about to tell t my ts to myself; and later, over pudding in ry, Mrs Stiles sat, fingering . Mr ay took o to serve up t of all of us, not glad t Gentleman had e.
At least, I supposed I old myself, but just dont kno. Youll feel it, o meet, in a day or t anotwo weeks, however, before we did. For of course, I had no
reason for Maud, into ts of t in, and o mine. Besides, t Briar e like some great mec c. ter t moving on our o room, on our set courses, until to our beds at nig as into t .—Sometimes, t I could almost turning. I greo stop.
ts ry does to you.
leman came, ticks, t all on, smoot order. Maud did not go to o read to ook notes. S to and se cards, or o to trees and the graves.
As fentleman: seven, and took in eigures. Mr Lilly directed ures as ted up a little room fentleman to ures ty precious. I never saleman carried keys about o t room or in it.
til one oclock, took took ours aloe in silence. S at all, but only sit ing. t a quarter to ts, papers and cards, a riangle—and s tly, in an order t let me help. If a brush fell and
I caug, sake everyts, triangle—a out all ain.
I learned not to touco , as truck t a mier t tleman, to teach her her days lesson.
At first, t to t an apple, a pear and a er-jug upon a table, and stood and nodded o paint t as -brus Gentleman his head or screw up his eye and say,
I declare, Miss Lilly, you are acquiring quite a method. Or,
an improvement, on your sketth!
Do you t ttle lean? ougo practise my perspective?
tive is, pertle at fault, you , Miss Lilly, o stand before you! I am afraid of urn t eye upon me.
, in a voice t art off strong and t, and breatating; and soo o a fire. Sry t again. time t like a banana. tleman t he brush a bad one.
If I migake you to London, Miss Lilly, to my oudio there!
t ists life, in a g artist friends. Maud said, Lady artist friends, too?
Of course, —t to everyoaste. See ry ttle firmer.
to urned o his and said,
ont you tell me is you t speak plainly. I am not a child, Mr Rivers!
You are not, ly, gazing into art. After all, on, my opinion is mild enoug s your—your sex, and matters of creation. t have.
S is t, Mr Rivers?
y, ly, of mine.
S still, to startle o tleman looked up too, and c made ill o me, to ed o roke.
t o ture of t, and—O ran like a tear-drop. Gentleman said s not mind it, t e enoug to table, took up t. Maud kept a little pen-k and cut to t slices. o one for s juid brougo me.
Almost ripe, I th a wink.
o e it in t left beads of cloudy jui fully; and I licked mine; and Maud, for once, let ained, and sat against it, her look a dark one.
e s. Real secrets, and soo many to t. ry noo sort out op and give it up, it makes my head spin.
At last try painting from nature. I guessed at once meant. It meant t ake to all t instru. I t, too. ill it rain today, do you think?
s of ill cold as anyt just as everyone in t to see Mr Rivers e back to it again, so noo lift and gro. topped rattling. turned pearly instead of grey. tables.
In t t leman: er a sation, sake it; I t more easily, to ty stiffly, t ttle artful o pull il it o brus from art off space bet steadily t last, t about rousers. I sa all; for I ool. Sometimes te tet me. turn, and say,
mind ter of a mile .
Mr Rivers al t. to paint, but really keeping alking in murmurs; and I o follear.
Of course, I o all. I to tleman roper.
I ccimes at en at t some fl bird t took urn, and catc by time s h.
You would swear, seeing he loved her.
You would swear, seeing she loved him.
But you could see t stering . go too fast. ouc to let o guide ed. o o coget if a little nearer s her gloves on.
At last t spot beside ting of t reading in t nig fretfully to imes took more sleeping-drops, and sometimes shivered in her sleep.
I put my , till sill again.
I er oo make for no , I kept till it sleman o udy er in t passes!, I kne. But I kneoo, t it as a pliment not to to me, w all.
I guessed little t. speak plainly, but made great play ed out our calk in private; and just as it began to look as t c did—and it was Maud, in way, w us .
For sood at t it, and said,
the lawn.
I and stood beside rolling about tte. till rather low, made his shadow very long.
Aint all? I said, gazing side Maud. S, and s ahen she said,
O te . Poor Mr Rivers!
udying tip of te, and blo it; noing o rouser pocket, searcc the window-glass.
No? c believe ruck te ty minutes ago. go to Uncle soon. No, cs ..."
S me and wrung was breaking.
I said, It kill him, miss.
But poor Mr Rivers, s take a matco ting te away. how sad he looks now!
e didnt c kept told Maud t she said,
take a dle! take anytake a coal from t you be quicker?—Dont say I sent you, mind!
you believe s?—tripping dos of stairs, ed coal in a pair of fire-tongs, just so a man mig? ell, I no. Gentleman saepping across to I carried, and laughed.
I said, All rig me do for you to ligte from. Look glad, sc make a business of it, if you .
move raised o her window.
a good girl she is, he said.
Soo good for you, t I do know.
only as a gentleman so a servant; and ly,
how do we do, Sue?
Pretty well, I answered.
You think she loves me?
I do. Oh, yes.
a silver case and lifted free a cigarette. But s told you so?
S o.
o trust you?
I t. She has nobody else.
te, t in a sigaihe cold air blue. he said, Shes ours.
epped back a little ured ed, let to tooped to it. else? old t ened, smiling, all time fumbling ongs over tc up and rising, and plag my ongs and pressing tight.
tly. ter. But you kno do? atctle jeing and turn o cas like t on, in an ordinary voice. Mr ay o t door of to see fall and scorcs . . .
I made sey, and epped out to bend tc, murmur:
ts on you, at Lant Street. Mrs Sucksby o kiss you, in her behalf.
kiss, t te into ted up e o brus back behind his ear.
From ep, I saudying quite sure o do most: laug s out. But
Gentlema . ed o tretc Maud migter from the shadows of her room.
Sood and cte, every m ifter t. Sand at to t circle of crimson in upon t I sa gro passed.
Noced for to break.
I it migake t t too good at ing, and too smoottle jump out of o be o Gentleman; and tle of o be closer to t o glide in. e o go bust.
e needed o gro I could , ttle s—suc a kileman Mr Rivers s like Mr Rivers mig t for ttle c, to open up , sook ourned cold again, t got to Marc April. By May, Mr Lillys pictures ed, aleman still s of fear t a en her off.
I greful, ing. Gentleman greful. e all gre fidgeting for a trot, and art, t
art; and ime fentleman to call on ening for ep—t. t nigiff and open-eyed, or turn and murmur in her sleep.
All, I t, for love! I . I t about , in t of all t she guessed liked her.
I t of leman liked me.
I t per to take ell o another.
t s tty rum, in lig er.
But somet. t last. t bust, and all paid off.
S him kiss her.
Not on someter.
I kno.
It day of April. too ime of year. t in a sky of grey, and everyone said thunder.
S and a cloak above : so ake a. Sting at ing of tleman o e spoiled , and t upon her face.
t to touc er in it still, and all t rank. t Gentleman said les. tig, furry buds.
I sat beside turned punt: Gentleman to ter of t of cakes. t leman looked on, smiling, and sometimes putting his hand on
hers.
Sed, and t sun loo be streaked . I slept and dreamt of Lant Street—I dreamt of Mr Ibbs at ing. t arted from t, not knoleman were nowo be seen.
tool, and terrible painting. ts. I over and picked up t it leman, after all, to aken o t me to e up, sing, I could not imagi s almost afraid for almost like a real maid, worried for ress.
And ttle hem.
t gone far—only just along t bent about t look round. t ogeto last. time, me to over t to , turned her hair, and whispered.
tood ced one of ; and then he kissed her naked palm.
And by t, I kneo rose even ops of ogs, te of high.
treacle. My go to gaze as I did. I could not look aillness of t ill bunc ed skirt—it seemed to ongue among tcly kissed her again.
I so see . I . Instead, I imagi of e fingers, m. I and in . All for t and —so slig s break. I t swallow her up, or bruise her.
I turned a t of too urned, and stole softly back to er a mie after t I s, and tleman ttoned up and . hen he saw me he gave me a look. he said,
Sue! e didnt like to t is all gone, and ress?
I said notoo, , and looked no . I put ook ting and ts, tool and t, and folloe in to the
door to us. As to fall, i, dark, staining drops.
Just in time! said Gentleman softly, gazing at Maud aing her draw her hand from him.
It ill, for I sao roke her fingers over her palm.
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ll Mr Rivers t s t any sort of disturbao be visited by he supper-hour came . . .
S on like te and a t off. Ser of an leman h her.
epped into t look at me at first. his eyes were all for Maud. he said,
Miss Lilly, you are kind to receive me ravel-stained and tumbled as I am. t is like you!
le. As for tains— a mark upon o . idy; little ring on finger, but apart from t his hands were bare and very .
to be—a leman. uro me at last, I found myself making sey and shy.
And , co I sepped toook my o me. Briar, Sue. I ress.
I said, I oo, sir.
She is a very good girl, said Maud. She is a very good girl, indeed.
S in a nervous, grateful kind of to a stranger, feeling pusion, about y.
Gentleman pressed my it fall. be good—I s be good, Miss Lilly—h you as her example.
rose again. You are too kind, she said.
at leman could but be, o be kind to,
No last s hen she laughed.
And I t t time, t . S—I kne, seeing and beside h her eyes on his.
Pigeons and geese. t clock sounded, and tarted and looked aleman said oo long. I s supper, I h your uncle?
itly.
to t out of it o remember me, and tomime, of patting at s, looking for s. o take it.
ed my . It Maud s overhear.
I said, Osey, and o do toget reend you try it: for I fear tsey; and Im certaihe wink.
I dont tleman noticed, isfied us. Maud looked o me, t silently to knoil ser, to own for dinner.
I sat and tossed t, bad s will gleam as well as good.
But I t it in a distented sort of know why.
t nigayed an er supper, reading to o Gentleman in t seen t s iles o remark on it as ook our meals. I still passed my evenings in tciless pantry; and pretty dull evenings t, . I doo find Margaret piece of roasting . , plumping up e diso cook for.
Sogs for tra ruffles. d made ting straig ool beside to one of Gentlemans boots.
o tiles? Mr Rivers says t, in London, you may see eleps. s in pens in ts back.
ell, bless my soul! said Mrs Stiles.
Sened a brooc t was a m brooc.
Eleps! I t. I could see t Gentleman o a coop of roosting ttering. tter-bred treating of a servant. t a fi a clever young person like tood up and told trut ts; t Mr Rivers o marry Maud and steal ood and told t, t. t I was mad.
tleman, over someone like me.
And of course, I about to tell t my ts to myself; and later, over pudding in ry, Mrs Stiles sat, fingering . Mr ay took o to serve up t of all of us, not glad t Gentleman had e.
At least, I supposed I old myself, but just dont kno. Youll feel it, o meet, in a day or t anotwo weeks, however, before we did. For of course, I had no
reason for Maud, into ts of t in, and o mine. Besides, t Briar e like some great mec c. ter t moving on our o room, on our set courses, until to our beds at nig as into t .—Sometimes, t I could almost turning. I greo stop.
ts ry does to you.
leman came, ticks, t all on, smoot order. Maud did not go to o read to ook notes. S to and se cards, or o to trees and the graves.
As fentleman: seven, and took in eigures. Mr Lilly directed ures as ted up a little room fentleman to ures ty precious. I never saleman carried keys about o t room or in it.
til one oclock, took took ours aloe in silence. S at all, but only sit ing. t a quarter to ts, papers and cards, a riangle—and s tly, in an order t let me help. If a brush fell and
I caug, sake everyts, triangle—a out all ain.
I learned not to touco , as truck t a mier t tleman, to teach her her days lesson.
At first, t to t an apple, a pear and a er-jug upon a table, and stood and nodded o paint t as -brus Gentleman his head or screw up his eye and say,
I declare, Miss Lilly, you are acquiring quite a method. Or,
an improvement, on your sketth!
Do you t ttle lean? ougo practise my perspective?
tive is, pertle at fault, you , Miss Lilly, o stand before you! I am afraid of urn t eye upon me.
, in a voice t art off strong and t, and breatating; and soo o a fire. Sry t again. time t like a banana. tleman t he brush a bad one.
If I migake you to London, Miss Lilly, to my oudio there!
t ists life, in a g artist friends. Maud said, Lady artist friends, too?
Of course, —t to everyoaste. See ry ttle firmer.
to urned o his and said,
ont you tell me is you t speak plainly. I am not a child, Mr Rivers!
You are not, ly, gazing into art. After all, on, my opinion is mild enoug s your—your sex, and matters of creation. t have.
S is t, Mr Rivers?
y, ly, of mine.
S still, to startle o tleman looked up too, and c made ill o me, to ed o roke.
t o ture of t, and—O ran like a tear-drop. Gentleman said s not mind it, t e enoug to table, took up t. Maud kept a little pen-k and cut to t slices. o one for s juid brougo me.
Almost ripe, I th a wink.
o e it in t left beads of cloudy jui fully; and I licked mine; and Maud, for once, let ained, and sat against it, her look a dark one.
e s. Real secrets, and soo many to t. ry noo sort out op and give it up, it makes my head spin.
At last try painting from nature. I guessed at once meant. It meant t ake to all t instru. I t, too. ill it rain today, do you think?
s of ill cold as anyt just as everyone in t to see Mr Rivers e back to it again, so noo lift and gro. topped rattling. turned pearly instead of grey. tables.
In t t leman: er a sation, sake it; I t more easily, to ty stiffly, t ttle artful o pull il it o brus from art off space bet steadily t last, t about rousers. I sa all; for I ool. Sometimes te tet me. turn, and say,
mind ter of a mile .
Mr Rivers al t. to paint, but really keeping alking in murmurs; and I o follear.
Of course, I o all. I to tleman roper.
I ccimes at en at t some fl bird t took urn, and catc by time s h.
You would swear, seeing he loved her.
You would swear, seeing she loved him.
But you could see t stering . go too fast. ouc to let o guide ed. o o coget if a little nearer s her gloves on.
At last t spot beside ting of t reading in t nig fretfully to imes took more sleeping-drops, and sometimes shivered in her sleep.
I put my , till sill again.
I er oo make for no , I kept till it sleman o udy er in t passes!, I kne. But I kneoo, t it as a pliment not to to me, w all.
I guessed little t. speak plainly, but made great play ed out our calk in private; and just as it began to look as t c did—and it was Maud, in way, w us .
For sood at t it, and said,
the lawn.
I and stood beside rolling about tte. till rather low, made his shadow very long.
Aint all? I said, gazing side Maud. S, and s ahen she said,
O te . Poor Mr Rivers!
udying tip of te, and blo it; noing o rouser pocket, searcc the window-glass.
No? c believe ruck te ty minutes ago. go to Uncle soon. No, cs ..."
S me and wrung was breaking.
I said, It kill him, miss.
But poor Mr Rivers, s take a matco ting te away. how sad he looks now!
e didnt c kept told Maud t she said,
take a dle! take anytake a coal from t you be quicker?—Dont say I sent you, mind!
you believe s?—tripping dos of stairs, ed coal in a pair of fire-tongs, just so a man mig? ell, I no. Gentleman saepping across to I carried, and laughed.
I said, All rig me do for you to ligte from. Look glad, sc make a business of it, if you .
move raised o her window.
a good girl she is, he said.
Soo good for you, t I do know.
only as a gentleman so a servant; and ly,
how do we do, Sue?
Pretty well, I answered.
You think she loves me?
I do. Oh, yes.
a silver case and lifted free a cigarette. But s told you so?
S o.
o trust you?
I t. She has nobody else.
te, t in a sigaihe cold air blue. he said, Shes ours.
epped back a little ured ed, let to tooped to it. else? old t ened, smiling, all time fumbling ongs over tc up and rising, and plag my ongs and pressing tight.
tly. ter. But you kno do? atctle jeing and turn o cas like t on, in an ordinary voice. Mr ay o t door of to see fall and scorcs . . .
I made sey, and epped out to bend tc, murmur:
ts on you, at Lant Street. Mrs Sucksby o kiss you, in her behalf.
kiss, t te into ted up e o brus back behind his ear.
From ep, I saudying quite sure o do most: laug s out. But
Gentlema . ed o tretc Maud migter from the shadows of her room.
Sood and cte, every m ifter t. Sand at to t circle of crimson in upon t I sa gro passed.
Noced for to break.
I it migake t t too good at ing, and too smoottle jump out of o be o Gentleman; and tle of o be closer to t o glide in. e o go bust.
e needed o gro I could , ttle s—suc a kileman Mr Rivers s like Mr Rivers mig t for ttle c, to open up , sook ourned cold again, t got to Marc April. By May, Mr Lillys pictures ed, aleman still s of fear t a en her off.
I greful, ing. Gentleman greful. e all gre fidgeting for a trot, and art, t
art; and ime fentleman to call on ening for ep—t. t nigiff and open-eyed, or turn and murmur in her sleep.
All, I t, for love! I . I t about , in t of all t she guessed liked her.
I t of leman liked me.
I t per to take ell o another.
t s tty rum, in lig er.
But somet. t last. t bust, and all paid off.
S him kiss her.
Not on someter.
I kno.
It day of April. too ime of year. t in a sky of grey, and everyone said thunder.
S and a cloak above : so ake a. Sting at ing of tleman o e spoiled , and t upon her face.
t to touc er in it still, and all t rank. t Gentleman said les. tig, furry buds.
I sat beside turned punt: Gentleman to ter of t of cakes. t leman looked on, smiling, and sometimes putting his hand on
hers.
Sed, and t sun loo be streaked . I slept and dreamt of Lant Street—I dreamt of Mr Ibbs at ing. t arted from t, not knoleman were nowo be seen.
tool, and terrible painting. ts. I over and picked up t it leman, after all, to aken o t me to e up, sing, I could not imagi s almost afraid for almost like a real maid, worried for ress.
And ttle hem.
t gone far—only just along t bent about t look round. t ogeto last. time, me to over t to , turned her hair, and whispered.
tood ced one of ; and then he kissed her naked palm.
And by t, I kneo rose even ops of ogs, te of high.
treacle. My go to gaze as I did. I could not look aillness of t ill bunc ed skirt—it seemed to ongue among tcly kissed her again.
I so see . I . Instead, I imagi of e fingers, m. I and in . All for t and —so slig s break. I t swallow her up, or bruise her.
I turned a t of too urned, and stole softly back to er a mie after t I s, and tleman ttoned up and . hen he saw me he gave me a look. he said,
Sue! e didnt like to t is all gone, and ress?
I said notoo, , and looked no . I put ook ting and ts, tool and t, and folloe in to the
door to us. As to fall, i, dark, staining drops.
Just in time! said Gentleman softly, gazing at Maud aing her draw her hand from him.
It ill, for I sao roke her fingers over her palm.
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