[Logcheck-devel] underprivileged

[Dickie Spivey]

Ought she not tohave said Lord Chief Justice? He shuffledand fumbled; but as he always ignored the injury, his childrendared not help him.
He was very pale but his dark eyes glowed.
A curious amusement seemed to fill Mrs Pargiter. An oval white shape hung infront of her dangling, as if it hung from a string. She wished people would not say, Bring one of yourdaughters. Her sister Delia,lying back in a chair beside her, watched it too. She can see hershadow on the wall, Milly was saying. Thedog was asleep on the mat; the coast was clear; the hall was empty. Shestood at the door, with her pale-blue eyes looking very prominent.
In the silence they could hear a coal click in thegrate and a street hawker droning down the road.
Sometimes a bowl shone deep blue; then became livid. The lamps stood atgreat distances apart, and there were pools of darkness between.
Mrs Levy had her rent ready, for a wonder, she said.
All their lives depended upon her riding to them through theenemys country.
A moment or two later backshe came carrying two silk-shaded lamps.
Then a gulping sound behind her made herturn.
Just tell Mama what youve beendoing; and then the kettle .
When she came to thebedroom door with the jugs and glasses on the table outside, shepaused.
Putting her finger on the page to mark the place, she looked at hersister.
The crocuses were yellow and purple in the frontgardens. All their lives depended upon her riding to them through theenemys country. She listened intentlyas she passed the schoolroom door. She had a greatadmiration for Mrs Levy, who was dying of cancer.
That was the worst of the Bar, everyonesaid; one had to wait.
Them thats been good to me, them I remember . He took out his large silk handkerchief and wiped his chinimpatiently.
Then she went, creaking in her cheapshoes, to the window and drew the curtains.
It has come, Delia said to herself; it has come! 
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