Chapter Three (第2/2页)
id, No, miss. I dont think so.
Mr Lilly at o his hand across his ear.
I dont care for s? t s?
Maud smiled. She , Uncle, she said.
turbing me now?
So fetch me.
to fetche clock sound?
o tcoat and dre an a great gold repeater, tilting o catc Maud, ill fumbling ening of ook a step, meaning to -s came ongue.
the finger!
o me, and sil ter t t undere black, and so guessed en. But at t moment range, and spoke so s quite failed me. I t be proo fits. I took anotep, and t made ill last Maud came to me and touched my arm.
Dont be afraid, sly. my feet, t into t, a flat brass ing finger.
Uncle does not care to s eyes upon no servant advance furto this mark here.
Soe of er.
Does s? said her uncle.
Yes soe. S very ime—s you, Susan?
Yes, miss, I said— I s; for it ainly neo me, t gazing at a line of print could spoil it. But t? Besides t anyt rue. Yes, miss, I said, a sed time; and then: Yes, sir.
tsey. Mr Lilly snorted, looking me tened uro leave him.
Make , Maud, he door behind us.
I will, Uncle, she murmured.
Noook me round taircase to t of lund coffee in anot; but w Cook up, she made a face.
Eggs, s, like you must be. did you think of my uncle, Susan?
I said, Im sure hes very clever, miss.
he is.
And ing, I believe, a great big diary?
Sionary, yes. A great many years labour. e are presently at F.
So see of t.
Astonishing, I said.
S a spoon to t of took its te and yello and made anot it from eat t eat tter.
t k g bites of bread and sips of coffee, and once
rubbing for a mi a spot upon te!
I sa mark, til t came to take tray ao e again—so a neer, as I put coal on t te, and they looked like gloves for a doll.
Sainly, t you Lant Street? I did not t ty lonely, and pretty bookis be, in a ? to tening rain, but so go out ood at ttle black press, looking over s, s and s. t killed nearly an s w. her hands upon mine and said,
Be slower. o here?
S her eyes were sad. I said, No, miss.
In t on a pale grey cloak, and over tens. Stle leat ready, t tle of er, and scissors: s saying to cut flo staircase to to ts. outside ood blinking, our our eyes against tery sun. t sa, at nighe
fog and I so say it seemed less grim seemed nos cs roof s. It ains t of trunks of ivy. It front door, split do rain o press , and e sideo leave t all.
It o see epping out of t gloomy place, like a pearl ing out of an oyster.
It o cer s at her back.
But t muco stay for, out in t avenue of trees, t led up to t of gravel t t in. t grely les; and an ro ttle stone cross to tand and gaze at til s tarted a muddy la led you to a s-up old red c, quietest place I ever sao go to it, but Maud took t en. For at t oomb, t her.
S and look at t for an a time, fat only for keeping do gre it; and ters of lead s o take off stains.
Sil me first day, wried, she said,
It is a daugy, to tend to t ch me.
So I left o it, and ombs. ts made it ring. I of my o give graves to murderesses. t their bodies in quicklime.
Did you ever pour salt on to do it, and to see to me once,
Your mot. Sen me smelt it!
again. I took up a pair of kitc to . And thing!
I wondered bad blood flowed in me.
But s to ask. S, gazing amped my feet. t last s her, passed her hand across her eyes, and drew up her hood.
ts tle further.
So t ran alongside a took you to t see t landing-place tted atle upturned punt t made a kind of seat. ts er very quiet and muddy and filled ing fiso t ter. I supposed sened of s, and sat ip of it pressed against h.
I sat beside cold, and so quiet it thin.
Pretty stretcer, I said, for politeness sake.
A barge by. toucs. Iwaved.
Bound for London, said Maud, looking after them.
London?
S t?—-t t trifling bit of er s t ill, t it o c folloer; t passed from sigs engine faded, ts c. till sat ip of t ook up stones and began to to ter. Sc, every splaso the house.
e back to out a bit of se to be a tableclot. I never sac. It made me nervous. e sat togettering fire, and talked in a greo rattle o myself, Dear God, let Gentleman e soon! I t my eye. t made me ya s ucked up and laid o sleep.
ts all to do til truck seven. s o co h her uncle.
S took my dinner in tcs. told me
t, ao read? I asked. let s —fears ss keeps ime in gloves.
ts enougiles. . I sat and t about Mr Lilly, er, ongue; and t Maud, fro would make a girl like .
I t I kne ening to ts talk, not saying muciles asked me, So e and take my pudding ry? I supposed I ougo. I sat gazing at ture made all of every story—t bulls breaking fences, or parsons making iing sermons in ciles s e a match for London, news-wise!
Above sound of laug .
t ruck, and immediately after it ts bell sounded; and t meant t Mr Lilly o be seen by Mr ay into Maud o be put by me into hers.
I almost lost my even so, when she saw me she said,
Is t you, Susan? You are quicker too. I dont think a girl be hand-
some—__do you?— nor her. I
so be dark, Susan!
Sh her supper, and I had had beer. I should
ay ipsy. Sand
beside t silvery glass above her fireplace, and drew my
o o pare the
darker, she said.
to put o gown.
It muccer all. Sood sy as everye. Stripping a lady is eel; , as I t tors speak against, t gives a girl an illness. et, ticoats and s all, and smootter. too soft, I t er its sood in ogs igurned, and looked at o tom, from tatue on a pillar in a park. So pale so shine.
But again, it roubling kind of paleness, and I o cover idied o t and ed, yao e and brush her hair.
do migch.
are you tress? as her hair handsomer?
she walked well. Do I walk well? You do, miss.
S beside o pare them.
Yours is almost as , she said kindly.
S into care to lie in darkness. S in a tin s beside it from t let me tie tains of tle s see into the room beyond.
And you , e close your door? so. I didnt like it, before you came, in a co call touc your toucle.
S o feel t of o button anote pair ba. took ucked . I pulled t perfectly smoot be all, miss?
Yes, Susan, s like t it back, and it snaked aht and dark and slender as a rope.
ook my dle off, t by t tle furtood and rubbed my face. I Briar only a day; but it day of my life. My , now I had undressed her.
At last I sat and ble my dle; and a sound in t in it to ttle t up. I t, ell, I be silent, if you t. I am softer to t of tained bed, and rait of tcrait to , and spoke soft, sad o it. t it from t t to look in t it ly on table— touce, touc tain and ill.
I greoo tired to y room behem; and lay cold as a frog in my own narrow ladys maids bed.
I ot say for t say, knoe or to Mauds room and sa lig I kne dreaming. I , crasant of my opening my eyes, t as I lifted my my beat in a ened voice. She was calling on her old maid:
Agnes! Oh! Oh! Agnes!
I didnt king t t still rattled, e unbroken; and to tains s all bunch her and her
, range. I knes Sue, miss.
S sound? Is t? there? A man? she said. A man? A burglar?
At t go, Agnes! Im afraid ened, s t me try and light a dle.
But ried to lig in a tin s get to cat, il my eady.
I said, You must be quiet, miss. to e and catch him.
I took up t. Dont take t! s once. I beg you, dont!
I said I ake it to to s and clutc t to to open.
t bits of furniture sat , like ts o be murdered by burglars. And o be a man I knew—say, one of Mr Ibbss nep do happen.
So I stood gazing fearfully at to call out—in case t t I of course, t as a d t quickly to to t
was
, too—tig of some clock, far-off and more rattling after all it quite Pleasant, standing in a nig, in a great dark silent , t didnt cer-
tainly s. I closed t baauds oom and closed t door, and stepped to t t down.
Shere?
I to ans topped. For I e te and gleaming, t t I, t Ive a ion? I ain t t to me. My leapt so o my mouto taste it. I screamed, and Maud screamed, tc me and look at me! s leave me! Dont leave me!
And t te t to foot and almost laughed.
For it from t steps he springs bounce.
I sa, as I say, and almost laug o let my beteeto cter. I han ever.
I said, Its noter all, its nothing. You was only dreaming.
Dreaming, Agnes?
S my bosom, and sil she grew calm.
t me put t about you, look.
But wo lay leave me, Agnes! she said again.
I said, Its Sue, miss. Agnes ina, and is gone back to Cork. Remember? You must lie dooo.
S me t ill so dark, seemed yet a little clearer.
Dont leave me, Sue! she whispered. Im afraid, of my own dreaming!
. er. In a feime, I t— if our plot o hen?
So I put only for a moment; and I clambered over bes at my arm about once s me. It seemed t t I could do. I pulled like Mrs Sucksby. Not like Mrs Sucksby, at all. Sill stle, and my t, like featime, opped, and again and till. She grew heavy, and warm.
Good girl, I said, too softly to wake her.
m I e before sroubled, and tried to .
Did my dreams ? s meeting my gaze. Did I say foolis o e and keep me pany!
I didnt tell t eig off to one I to fetg care, time, to mind ting finger on to the river; she sewed, and dozed, and was
rung to iles until nine, ime to go back up and put o bed. It t day, ain. S, and laid ood in my room and tle box unlocked, and peeped to cake up trait, kiss it, t it away.
And t put out my dle tes, before ly: Sue—!
S sleep. So keep me close to ened.
S nig after t. You dont mind? s Mayfair?
could I tell migress and o double up like girls.
It first, , quite like sisters. Quite like sisters, indeed. I aled a sister.
tleman came.
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id, No, miss. I dont think so.
Mr Lilly at o his hand across his ear.
I dont care for s? t s?
Maud smiled. She , Uncle, she said.
turbing me now?
So fetch me.
to fetche clock sound?
o tcoat and dre an a great gold repeater, tilting o catc Maud, ill fumbling ening of ook a step, meaning to -s came ongue.
the finger!
o me, and sil ter t t undere black, and so guessed en. But at t moment range, and spoke so s quite failed me. I t be proo fits. I took anotep, and t made ill last Maud came to me and touched my arm.
Dont be afraid, sly. my feet, t into t, a flat brass ing finger.
Uncle does not care to s eyes upon no servant advance furto this mark here.
Soe of er.
Does s? said her uncle.
Yes soe. S very ime—s you, Susan?
Yes, miss, I said— I s; for it ainly neo me, t gazing at a line of print could spoil it. But t? Besides t anyt rue. Yes, miss, I said, a sed time; and then: Yes, sir.
tsey. Mr Lilly snorted, looking me tened uro leave him.
Make , Maud, he door behind us.
I will, Uncle, she murmured.
Noook me round taircase to t of lund coffee in anot; but w Cook up, she made a face.
Eggs, s, like you must be. did you think of my uncle, Susan?
I said, Im sure hes very clever, miss.
he is.
And ing, I believe, a great big diary?
Sionary, yes. A great many years labour. e are presently at F.
So see of t.
Astonishing, I said.
S a spoon to t of took its te and yello and made anot it from eat t eat tter.
t k g bites of bread and sips of coffee, and once
rubbing for a mi a spot upon te!
I sa mark, til t came to take tray ao e again—so a neer, as I put coal on t te, and they looked like gloves for a doll.
Sainly, t you Lant Street? I did not t ty lonely, and pretty bookis be, in a ? to tening rain, but so go out ood at ttle black press, looking over s, s and s. t killed nearly an s w. her hands upon mine and said,
Be slower. o here?
S her eyes were sad. I said, No, miss.
In t on a pale grey cloak, and over tens. Stle leat ready, t tle of er, and scissors: s saying to cut flo staircase to to ts. outside ood blinking, our our eyes against tery sun. t sa, at nighe
fog and I so say it seemed less grim seemed nos cs roof s. It ains t of trunks of ivy. It front door, split do rain o press , and e sideo leave t all.
It o see epping out of t gloomy place, like a pearl ing out of an oyster.
It o cer s at her back.
But t muco stay for, out in t avenue of trees, t led up to t of gravel t t in. t grely les; and an ro ttle stone cross to tand and gaze at til s tarted a muddy la led you to a s-up old red c, quietest place I ever sao go to it, but Maud took t en. For at t oomb, t her.
S and look at t for an a time, fat only for keeping do gre it; and ters of lead s o take off stains.
Sil me first day, wried, she said,
It is a daugy, to tend to t ch me.
So I left o it, and ombs. ts made it ring. I of my o give graves to murderesses. t their bodies in quicklime.
Did you ever pour salt on to do it, and to see to me once,
Your mot. Sen me smelt it!
again. I took up a pair of kitc to . And thing!
I wondered bad blood flowed in me.
But s to ask. S, gazing amped my feet. t last s her, passed her hand across her eyes, and drew up her hood.
ts tle further.
So t ran alongside a took you to t see t landing-place tted atle upturned punt t made a kind of seat. ts er very quiet and muddy and filled ing fiso t ter. I supposed sened of s, and sat ip of it pressed against h.
I sat beside cold, and so quiet it thin.
Pretty stretcer, I said, for politeness sake.
A barge by. toucs. Iwaved.
Bound for London, said Maud, looking after them.
London?
S t?—-t t trifling bit of er s t ill, t it o c folloer; t passed from sigs engine faded, ts c. till sat ip of t ook up stones and began to to ter. Sc, every splaso the house.
e back to out a bit of se to be a tableclot. I never sac. It made me nervous. e sat togettering fire, and talked in a greo rattle o myself, Dear God, let Gentleman e soon! I t my eye. t made me ya s ucked up and laid o sleep.
ts all to do til truck seven. s o co h her uncle.
S took my dinner in tcs. told me
t, ao read? I asked. let s —fears ss keeps ime in gloves.
ts enougiles. . I sat and t about Mr Lilly, er, ongue; and t Maud, fro would make a girl like .
I t I kne ening to ts talk, not saying muciles asked me, So e and take my pudding ry? I supposed I ougo. I sat gazing at ture made all of every story—t bulls breaking fences, or parsons making iing sermons in ciles s e a match for London, news-wise!
Above sound of laug .
t ruck, and immediately after it ts bell sounded; and t meant t Mr Lilly o be seen by Mr ay into Maud o be put by me into hers.
I almost lost my even so, when she saw me she said,
Is t you, Susan? You are quicker too. I dont think a girl be hand-
some—__do you?— nor her. I
so be dark, Susan!
Sh her supper, and I had had beer. I should
ay ipsy. Sand
beside t silvery glass above her fireplace, and drew my
o o pare the
darker, she said.
to put o gown.
It muccer all. Sood sy as everye. Stripping a lady is eel; , as I t tors speak against, t gives a girl an illness. et, ticoats and s all, and smootter. too soft, I t er its sood in ogs igurned, and looked at o tom, from tatue on a pillar in a park. So pale so shine.
But again, it roubling kind of paleness, and I o cover idied o t and ed, yao e and brush her hair.
do migch.
are you tress? as her hair handsomer?
she walked well. Do I walk well? You do, miss.
S beside o pare them.
Yours is almost as , she said kindly.
S into care to lie in darkness. S in a tin s beside it from t let me tie tains of tle s see into the room beyond.
And you , e close your door? so. I didnt like it, before you came, in a co call touc your toucle.
S o feel t of o button anote pair ba. took ucked . I pulled t perfectly smoot be all, miss?
Yes, Susan, s like t it back, and it snaked aht and dark and slender as a rope.
ook my dle off, t by t tle furtood and rubbed my face. I Briar only a day; but it day of my life. My , now I had undressed her.
At last I sat and ble my dle; and a sound in t in it to ttle t up. I t, ell, I be silent, if you t. I am softer to t of tained bed, and rait of tcrait to , and spoke soft, sad o it. t it from t t to look in t it ly on table— touce, touc tain and ill.
I greoo tired to y room behem; and lay cold as a frog in my own narrow ladys maids bed.
I ot say for t say, knoe or to Mauds room and sa lig I kne dreaming. I , crasant of my opening my eyes, t as I lifted my my beat in a ened voice. She was calling on her old maid:
Agnes! Oh! Oh! Agnes!
I didnt king t t still rattled, e unbroken; and to tains s all bunch her and her
, range. I knes Sue, miss.
S sound? Is t? there? A man? she said. A man? A burglar?
At t go, Agnes! Im afraid ened, s t me try and light a dle.
But ried to lig in a tin s get to cat, il my eady.
I said, You must be quiet, miss. to e and catch him.
I took up t. Dont take t! s once. I beg you, dont!
I said I ake it to to s and clutc t to to open.
t bits of furniture sat , like ts o be murdered by burglars. And o be a man I knew—say, one of Mr Ibbss nep do happen.
So I stood gazing fearfully at to call out—in case t t I of course, t as a d t quickly to to t
was
, too—tig of some clock, far-off and more rattling after all it quite Pleasant, standing in a nig, in a great dark silent , t didnt cer-
tainly s. I closed t baauds oom and closed t door, and stepped to t t down.
Shere?
I to ans topped. For I e te and gleaming, t t I, t Ive a ion? I ain t t to me. My leapt so o my mouto taste it. I screamed, and Maud screamed, tc me and look at me! s leave me! Dont leave me!
And t te t to foot and almost laughed.
For it from t steps he springs bounce.
I sa, as I say, and almost laug o let my beteeto cter. I han ever.
I said, Its noter all, its nothing. You was only dreaming.
Dreaming, Agnes?
S my bosom, and sil she grew calm.
t me put t about you, look.
But wo lay leave me, Agnes! she said again.
I said, Its Sue, miss. Agnes ina, and is gone back to Cork. Remember? You must lie dooo.
S me t ill so dark, seemed yet a little clearer.
Dont leave me, Sue! she whispered. Im afraid, of my own dreaming!
. er. In a feime, I t— if our plot o hen?
So I put only for a moment; and I clambered over bes at my arm about once s me. It seemed t t I could do. I pulled like Mrs Sucksby. Not like Mrs Sucksby, at all. Sill stle, and my t, like featime, opped, and again and till. She grew heavy, and warm.
Good girl, I said, too softly to wake her.
m I e before sroubled, and tried to .
Did my dreams ? s meeting my gaze. Did I say foolis o e and keep me pany!
I didnt tell t eig off to one I to fetg care, time, to mind ting finger on to the river; she sewed, and dozed, and was
rung to iles until nine, ime to go back up and put o bed. It t day, ain. S, and laid ood in my room and tle box unlocked, and peeped to cake up trait, kiss it, t it away.
And t put out my dle tes, before ly: Sue—!
S sleep. So keep me close to ened.
S nig after t. You dont mind? s Mayfair?
could I tell migress and o double up like girls.
It first, , quite like sisters. Quite like sisters, indeed. I aled a sister.
tleman came.
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