He was pounding very fiercely.
"Mr.Jan, I ought to know it," she went on.

"I am not a child.

If you please I must _request_ you to tell me." "What are you shivering for ?" asked Jan.
"I can't help it.

Is--is it anything that--that he can be taken up for ?" "Taken up!" replied Jan, ceasing from his pounding, and fixing his wide-open eyes on Miss Deborah.

"Can I be taken up for doing this ?"--and he brought down the pestle with such force as to threaten the destruction of the mortar.
"You'll tell me, please," she shivered.
"Well," said Jan, "if you must know it, the doctor had a misfortune." "A misfortune! He! What misfortune! A misfortune at Chalk Cottage ?" Jan gravely nodded.