"The better part of life is before you."
"Are you by way of telling my fortune?" asked Bridget.
"I hope to be allowed to influence it," said Jimmy, as she stopped at
the corner of Dover Street. "You will let me come and see you," he
urged, taking her hand.
"You said your sister was coming!" Bridget reminded him.
"Yes," he said.
"You must ask her to bring you."
CHAPTER XIV
THE WOOING O'T
Jimmy Clynesworth now began to employ all his arts to induce Sybil to
take some notice of Bridget. His eagerness, however, stood in his way.
The more forcibly he attempted to convince his sister of his desire,
the more obstinately she maintained her ground. Her hand was
strengthened by a visit to Charteris Street, where Victor often
attracted her, although some glass beads on her jacket made the child
regard her as an enemy.
After Phoebe had voiced her husband's opinion of Miss Rosser, Lawrence
himself came home in time to dot the i's and cross the t's. Sybil left
the house with the opinion that poor Jimmy stood in the acutest danger.
It seemed evident that she had scarcely exaggerated when she declared,
in the first place, that Bridget was not "respectable"!
She stiffened herself as it was only possible to do when duty called
her, and the consequence was that all of Jimmy's entreaties proved
vain.
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