'But it
wouldn't do to take a holiday so soon after settling to business.
Better luck for me next year, father, let's hope.'
That he had settled to business was a fact of which Joseph made so
much just now that one would have been tempted to suppose it almost
a new experience for him. His engagement, he declared, was with a
firm of advertising agents in the City; nothing to boast of,
unfortunately, and remunerative only in the way of commission; but
he saw his way to better things.
'Jane, my girl,' he continued, averting his eyes as if in emotion,
'I don't know how you and me are going to show our gratitude for all
this kindness, I'm sure. I hope you haven't got so used to it that
you think there's no need to thank your grandfather?'
The girl and the old man exchanged a look. Joseph sighed, and began
to speak of another subject in a tone of cheery martyrdom.
Jane herself had not been quite so joyous as was her wont since the
occurrence that caused her to take a new view of her position in the
world. She understood that her grandfather regarded the change very
gravely, and in her own heart awoke all manner of tremulous
apprehensions when she tried to look onward a little to the
uncertainties of the future.
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