15/22 Let them take their turn now and clothe the poor." "No, no. Steady, master," said the man, stepping forward to propitiate Miss Wilson, and evidently much oppressed by a sense of unwelcomeness. Might I make so bold as to ask you to put this woman of mine anywhere that may be convenient until morning. Just to have a roof over her until I find a room in the village where we can shake down." Here, led by his own words to contemplate the future, he looked desolately round the cornice of the hall, as if it were a shelf on which somebody might have left a suitable lodging for him. "I will keep your wife here," she said to the man. |