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CHAPTER XXV.
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She had never known great anxiety before. She had had many worries, many troublesome moments, when she wanted money, but never such a weight of care as this. There had always been Cocky, on to whose shoulders she had been able to throw the blame of everything; and whose ingenuity1 had frequently (for a consideration) been of exceeding use to her. Now she was alone, without even the solace2 of having Harry3 to quarrel with and upbraid4; and she had put herself and her secret and her signature into the hands of William Massarene. When she thought of it she felt as if a rush of ice-cold wind passed over her.
It was Sunday. She went to a fashionable church and took Boo with her, looking a picture of childish loveliness in the crape frock, and her big black hat and her little black silk legs displayed far above the knee.
“Mammy’s got a lot o’ bills to pay,” said Boo at the schoolroom dinner.
“Cos she prayed such a deal,” said his sister. “She flopped6 down on her knees and I think she cried.”
“There must be bills then,” said Jack seriously. “Or p’rhaps,” he added, “’twas only the church. Churches is always sorrowful.”
“I don’t mind ’em,” said Boo. “There’s a lot o’ fun in people’s bonnets7. I drawed two or three bonnets in my Prayer Book.”
Their mother was, indeed, as Boo’s observant eyes had discovered, greatly disturbed and apprehensive8. Throughout the service of the fashionable church she was absorbed in one thought: would Billy play her false? Would he, if he were true to her, be in time? Might not Beaumont be away from Paris for the Sunday, like so many Parisian tradesmen; he had a country house, she knew, at[315] Compigne. What would happen to her if, when the men from Coutts’s came, and she had not the veritable diamonds to give?
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Undid
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ecstasy
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ornament
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subserviency
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