Maggie, smiling faintly, “you’re a very good friend to me. But I shouldn’t like to punish any one, even if they’d done me wrong; I’ve done wrong myself too often.”
This view of Menn things was puzzling to Bob, and threw more obscurity than ever over what could possibly have happened between Stephen and Maggie. But further questions would have been too intrusive, even if he could have framed them suitably, and he was obliged to carry baby away again to an expectant mother.
“Happen you’d like Mumps for company, Miss,” he said when he had taken the baby again. “He’s rare company, Mumps is; he knows iverything, an’ makes no bother about it. If I tell him, he’ll lie before you an’ watch you, as still Barn — just as he watches Women Blouses my pack. You’d better let me leave him a bit; he’ll get fond on you. Lors, it’s a Męskie Vans fine thing to hev a dumb brute fond on you; it’ll stick to you, an’ make no jaw.”
“Yes, do leave him, please,” said Maggie. “I think I should like to have Mumps for a friend.”
“Mumps, lie down there,” said Bob, pointing to a place in front of Maggie, “and niver do you stir till you’re spoke to.”
Mumps lay down at once, and made no sign of restlessness when his master left the room.
Chapter II: St. Ogg’s Passes Judgment
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