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CHAPTER LII
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Family Secrets
The figure cowering1 over the furtive2 teapot glowered3 grimly at Barnes as he entered; and an old voice said —“Ho, it’s you!”
“I have brought you the notes, ma’am,” says Barnes, taking a packet of those documents from his pocket-book. “I could not come sooner, I have been engaged upon bank business until now.”
“I dare say! You smell of smoke like a courier.”
“A foreign capitalist: he would smoke. They will, ma’am. I didn’t smoke, upon my word.”
“I don’t see why you shouldn’t, if you like it. You will never get anything out of me whether you do or don’t. How is Clara? Is she gone to the country with the children? Newcome is the best place for her.”
“Doctor Bambury thinks she can move in a fortnight. The boy has had a little ——”
“A little fiddlestick! I tell you it is she who likes to stay, and makes that fool, Bambury, advise her not going away. I tell you to send her to Newcome. The air is good for her.”
“By that confounded smoky town, my dear Lady Kew?”
“And invite your mother and little brothers and sisters to stay Christmas there. The way in which you neglect them is shameful4, it is, Barnes.”
“Upon my word, ma’am, I propose to manage my own affairs without your ladyship’s assistance,” cries Barnes, starting up, “and did not come at this time of night to hear this kind of ——”
“Of good advice. I sent for you to give it you. When I wrote to you to bring me the money I wanted it was but a pretext5; Barkins might have fetched it from the City in the morning. I want you to send Clara and the children to Newcome. They ought to go, sir. That is why I sent for you; to tell you that. Have you been quarrelling as much as usual?”
“Pretty much as usual,” says Barnes, drumming on his hat.
“Don’t beat that devil’s tattoo
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