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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple1, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position. He had, as a matter of fact, established a large grocery in Stepney which did a curious mixed business, not always, as we had heard, of a very savoury character, with the riverside and seafaring people. He was ship’s chandler, provision merchant, and, if rumour2 spoke3 truly, some other things as well. Such a trade, however lucrative4, had its drawbacks, as was evident when, after twenty years of prosperity, he was savagely5 assaulted by one of his customers and left for dead, with three smashed ribs7 and a broken leg, which mended so badly that it remained for ever three inches shorter than the other. This incident seemed, not unnaturally8, to disgust him with his surroundings, for, after the trial, in which his assailant was condemned9 to fifteen years’ penal10 servitude, he retired11 from his business and settled in a lonely part of the North of England, whence, until that morning, we had never once heard of him—not even at the death of my father, who was his only brother.
My mother read his letter aloud to me: “If your 203son is with you, Ellen, and if he is as stout12 a lad as he promised for when last I heard from you, then send him up to me by the first train after this comes to hand. He will find that to serve me will pay him better than the engineering, and if I pass away (though, thank God, there is no reason to complain as to my health) you will see that I have not forgotten my brother’s son. Congleton is the station, and then a drive of four miles to Greta House, where I am now living. I will send a trap to meet the seven o’clock train, for it is the only one which stops here. Mind that you send him, Ellen, for I have very strong reasons for wishing him to be with me. Let bygones be bygones if there has been anything between us in the past. If you should fail me now you will live to regret it.”
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homely
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dodge
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inmates
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shutter
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clattering
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gingery
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unpack
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