PART I Chapter One
on from Jerusalem. ho can 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 Finc netted. 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, for a girl 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 count 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. Uncommonly 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 cannot 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 or gipsies.
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,