He had died before they married, and when her brother became a widower she
had come to his assistance and taken over much of the care of his youngest
daughter. She surveyed accommodation that seemed at first merely austere, and became
more and more manifestly inadequate as the moments fled by. Sheppard, who had again looked
round towards her son, beheld a hand glance along the side of the woollendraper. I know South
America and Canada like the lines in my hand. His father and mother are gone now. You know that, and I know that, though we might be put to it to
find a reason why. "Tom Sheppard never said a better thing than that—
ho! ho!"
"Jack," cried his mother, wringing her hands in distraction, "you'll break my
heart!"
"Poh! poh!" returned her son; "women don't so easily break their hearts. But heavens, I must pack!”
She sprang to her feet and disappeared in the room beyond, from which she
emerged a few minutes later with flushed cheeks and dishevelled hair. Perhaps at the first blush—it strikes you as odd.
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