r danger. Still kneeling, holding her fast, he looked up, and their eyes met. “Take me back,” she murmured, swaying. He rose, took her arm, and she Diego Costa Koszulka found herself in the Mayows’ doorway with Cherry at her side. “Get away with you,” said Cherry, “and leave her to me!” And the young man went.
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“What have I done?”
“Done? Well, that’s good. Only danced across the bonfire with young Zeke Penhaligon. Why, mother can mind when that was every bit so good as a marriage before parson and clerk! — and not so long ago neither.”
Chapter 3
“You go upstairs backwards,” said Cherry an hour later. “It don’t matter our going together, only you mustn’t speak a word for ever so. You undress in the dark, and turn each thing inside out as you take it off. Prayers? Yes, you can say Morocco Trikot your prayers if you like; but to yourself, mind. ’Twould be best to say ’em backwards, I reckon; but I never heard no instructions about prayers.”
“And then?”
“Why, then you go to sleep and dream of your sweetheart.”
“Oh! is that all?”
“Plenty enough, I should think! I dessay it don’t mean much to you; but it means a lot to me, who han’t got a sweetheart yet an’ don’t know if ever I shall have one.”
So the two girls solemnly mounted the Schweden Trikot stairs backwards, undressed in the dark, and crept into bed. But Hester could not sleep. She lay for an hour quite silent, motionless lest she should awake Cherry, with eyes wide open, staring at a ray of moonlight on the ceiling, and from that to the dimity window-curtains and the blind which waved ever so gently in the night breeze. All the while she was thinking of the dance; and by-and-by she sighed.
“Bain’t you asleep?” asked Cherry.
“No.”
“Nor I. Can’t sleep a wink. It’s they children overhead: they ‘m up to some devilment, I know, because Matthew Henry isn’t snoring. He always snores when he’s asleep, and it shakes the house. I’ll ha’ gone to see, only I was afeard to disturb ‘ee. I’ll war’n’ they ‘m up to some Anglia Koszulka may-games on the roof.”
“Let me come with Colombia Landslagsdrakt you,” said Hester.
They rose. Hester slipped on her dressing-gown, and Cherry an old macintosh, and Maillot Grèce they stole up the creaking stairs.
“Oh, you anointed limbs!” exclaimed Cherry, coming to a halt on the top.
The door of the children’s garret stood ajar. On the landing outside a short ladder led up to a trapdoor in the eaves, and through the open trapway a broad ray of moonlight streamed upon the staircase.
“That’s mother again! Now I know where Amelia got that cold in her head. I’ll war’n’ the door hasn’t been locked since Tuesday!”
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