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Hilda and Edwin have declared their love

for each other when she is forced to

return to Brighton she has still not

told him the truth about her past

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anyone there it's me that you this yes I

don't mean to sleep though I've been up

and down miss Gayley since the doctor

win she very bad beautiful pain she was

miss he said the sciatica is brought on

by that oil cloth I shouldn't be

surprised he was sitting on that oil

cloth on the top flight upstairs

teaching me how to do the banister she

was poor to myself then wouldn't do her

no good

she's wake is she she woke up repeat

last time I was dead she gets dreadful

Happiny when she moves you see I

shouldn't be surprised if you woke up

again I'll just go up tomorrow first I

think you should see her straightaway no

I must cut to my remember something I

have to do have you made up my bed that

isn't my room that way you was when you

went away miss I did use that room for a

time yes but it isn't my room my room is

the little one on the top floor

I just wanted

how could I seem scared in a moment

why don't they clear up properly in this

house

dearest Edwin

there is something that I must tell you

and when you know it you must take

whatever course of action you feel is

right I

not the person you think I am not long

ago I went through a form of marriage

with George Cannon and for 15 days I

lived with him as his wife not long

after I discovered that he had lied to

me and that he already has a wife who is

still alive

I realized of course that it was my duty

to tell you this this evening in the

shop but

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59 precedents we brighten 1 a.m. dearest

this is my address I love you every bit

of me is absolutely yours write me HL 59

Preston sweet Brighton 1 I am dearest

this is my address I love you every bit

of me is absolutely yours

write me HL it's fine it's so fine

whatever another girl could have every

bit of me is absolutely yours there's no

other girl could have written that none

there's no other gonna like her there's

not that's just gone 15 amperes morning

stiff Oh whatever struggling it's not

quite hate isn't it really

who's held on this high is 59 Preston

Street Brighton

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less than two days ago she and I on that

very spot meanwhile I yearn for you all

the time all day and every day all night

and every night each minute seems a year

when you're not with me I long for your

letters they are my only joy it is

selfish of me I know to wish they could

be longer and come more frequently I

love you with all my being

I'm fitting unworthy as I am to do so I

love you with all my soul yours forever

Edwin I must write to now he'll

understand

of course you thirty-nine Preston Street

Brighton Tuesday

dearest I love you what else can I say I

simply cannot write letters it isn't in

me can't you tell that from my

handwriting not even to you you must

take me as I am your letters are

wonderful

I'm absolutely yours HL surely you could

find five minutes each day to write a

proper letter that's three letters in

ten days and none of them longer than

now I realize I know I do know about

your friend and she's ill and you've got

to of course you have she's right and

change she's always right I know she is

and I understand

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they won't touch you

you must be tired yeah yeah hmm

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if Edwin Clair Hannah doesn't marry me I

shall have to stay here until she's dead

here it is again that war for feeling

surely I'm not going to faint

I mustn't faint I must sit here till she

goes to sleep

I must arrange they know I must

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I've seen I personally Brighton

Tuesday Tuesday I mean Tuesday good it

was above it's Sunday never Shirley she

couldn't surely she could just for five

minutes that's all it takes

I shall send her a telegram tomorrow if

I don't nearby tomorrow I shall send a

telegram aren't you coming to Chapel oh

not this morning no oh I'm just waiting

for father he's going to come does he

know you're not well guess he knows I've

still got that cold oh um there's only

post this morning Maggie not as far as I

know there never is much on a Sunday

were you expecting something no what I

mean is I had ordered a book and I

thought it might have come that's all I

don't think a boat could come on a

Sunday he means you'll be careful daddy

father hasn't cooked that yet I'm only

looking at it you know what he's like

this question you know do you remember

Clara what she read out oh it was the

first-ever issue with the Christian news

I forget what they was writing about now

something it was and Clara read a bit

out and all those present he said among

those present were the Prince of Wales

and mr. James Bond oh never forget oh we

laughed at that let's play going then

it's father what's up with a a there's a

chapel this morning father that coal

demands to Langan gone yeah do not get

rid of it with Molly coupling come on

why didn't I tell him why didn't I just

say I don't want it out the chapel

because I'm in love it's passion and

want not piety all I wants a blasted

letter from her

I shall tell him tonight but he sit in

there Raiden is Christian news good

battles settle things all right

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shall we go then mr. sexy is it mr

Bridges is preach Internet that's right

it is you get a good segment from mr.

Brij oh yes

I'm gone Chapel tonight as well no I say

father I just wanted to speak to you

well

suppose I wanted to get married so

that's it

well after all people don't get married

most been running up yeah I was only

thinking not was anything constraining

after well I can't rightly say there's

anything what you may call settled in

fact nothing was to be said about it at

all at present it's miss less ways

father

Hilda less ways you know much came in

shop the other day yes

our Long's that's been going on Oh were

over a year mind you this is strictly

cutie nobody knows a word about it

nobody of course I thought I better tell

you you say nothing

she's got an income of her own her

father left her money yep don't know all

about it

are there any father's father I'll let

you go your own Road but how about

Willie I was thinking all about money

well I couldn't marry on 17 insects away

could I I say you must go your own Road

well at this rate I should never be able

to marry do you think you get in marry

it'll make your services worse one more

penny to my business some people would

say I was underpaid now some people some

people some people who do we talking of

you be talking to folk be whiny the job

done but I never said that Baker's your

fright is what folks would laugh 17:06

and all your keep Oh pay 10 shillings to

Maggie from McCabe just threatened that

10 shillings will pay your share you

share the food you shared about your

serious servants wages a you cuddled

from its if what you are you struggle

for nothing all your life I made that

business I did me not tell me is what

you've done for this I do all I can and

what am I getting all this in didn't I

offer you turn off percent for every new

customers you got yourself for now many

of you got not one I'll give you a

chance to make extra money and you don't

take it no you should go running about

after girls how can I get orders I'm

dead I get them I'll do I get them

somebody has to get them why charlie

well tell you what sausage oh it's

against my judgment but at the new year

I'll put you up to a pound awake and

that's good money let me add what good's

a pound awake what good's a pound a week

let me tell you that in my time young

men got married on a pound a week I

found a weight and glad to I couldn't

marry miss les ways on a pound a week I

thought perhaps you might be offering me

a partnership by this time did you well

then they'd be the house furnishing and

so on and what about that fifty pound

not as he was so sacred if with that

money as you got from your Building

Society share I haven't spent all of it

and if he's just say she's got money of

alone when you're old and I got you I've

got you

yourself

suppose I chopped him over suppose I

just got out then there's a clock or

what looking to get a pound a week and

what else is there

manager of a printing office in the five

towns fathers got one the biggest

printing works the reason I'm there

already is these blasted slave what do I

say to her Ciara talk to me father about

it and he'll only allow me a pound a

week what are we to do do I say that one

day when he's old Oh

is that you Oh Louis Riel creep well

what brings you here on a Sunday night

in particular I'm working off Sunday

dinner a yes oh and I've broken the law

the Sabbath myself beam into the office

I came up here somewhere before I went

home

pride of one generation is the economic

yes often take a stroll around these

parts nice tonight

hi it's too nasty for me I'm off home

you must come in for a bit

oh no coming so you might as well do it

first as last Johnny's in oh she's a bad

luck she's like you and me hasn't me the

church I don't think yes yes I've

captured you you got to come in come on

well prisoner take charge of him well I

was I was just after a walk and I Met

Your father he insisted I came back with

him they're glad thank you he seems a

juses we saw you I suppose it is a bit

one never quite realizes how time goes

by no expect you're very busy in the

shop quite busy Oh quite busy yes well

won't you sit down thank you

oh how is everything

oh nothing very exciting happens to us I

don't believe that for one minute

you're always so active in this house

well you simply must come around person

music one night I'd love to I really

should heard likely from miss less ways

I suppose you've not heard she's married

married yes it is rather sudden isn't it

- or mr. cannon she's known him for a

very long time I think when yesterday I

had a note this morning it's quite a

secret yet I haven't told father and

mother but you asked me to tell you if I

saw mr. Edwin it seems we can only get

you here by main force so you're feeling

quite better mrs. allgreen so much

better thank you I was given such royal

treatments I couldn't help with their

better

I'm so glad and how we do mr. it oh yes

I'm fine it's been such a cold winter

already hasn't it yes goodness knows how

is your feeling January if it keeps on

like this I certainly hope that you're

more sensible than my children are

there's not some one of them that wears

enough clothes they just left that me

and think I'm a fuss oh yes you do Jimmy

I know quite well but if you catch a

chill at this time of year you can wait

until the spring thaw you manage to

shake it off yes um I must just running

home a second I shall be back in three

minutes

deal they didn't know I'd be out for

long you see but I shall be back in

three minutes I really shall Kenan she's

with cannon no this instant somewhere

she's with him my face is quite normal

into Todd come on help thinking about

her with that old man at Sunday school

teacher at mr. Shu Xiang's at the

centenary can't help thinking how gentle

she was with him all it's happened

mented it's happened and that's it

somewhere this very moment she's

probably in canons arms

I'm going to have a child

she doesn't hear what I say to her now

well she'll know soon enough

what was that you were saying about

gonna have a child

the doctor says there's no doubt I am

I'd like another biscuit I don't want it

Osborne none of the others

I'm on my own now the rest of the world

had done with me but I must survive

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Oh too bad I really am there I go

finishing tale of a tub when I should

have been reading Helen tonight I'll

never keep up with my reading program if

I go and doing things like that still

wonderful stuff it really was Hallam due

for completion April 8 or still time to

catch up if I get on with it

hangover tub finished April 3rd 1886

Brighton November 81

move the hex at night have you read my

pencil sharpener pencil sharpener left

under my desk oh yes I had a note to

write this morning and my pencil broke I

do wish you wouldn't interfere with my

things

it's only a pencil it's not a question

of only it's a question of I like to

know where things are I'm sorry I'm sure

I didn't think you'd mind how did you

know there was a sharpener there because

I was in your room once when you were

using yet you must see surely it's very

annoying to want to use something

yourself and then to find it's gone

I don't know Edwin I really don't I

sometimes think you're a regular old

maid and what's that supposed to mean

you're exactly like father sometimes you

aren't father me I can't believe you're

only 30 so I'm just asking you don't

take my pencil sharp know what your

thing in your room you're flying to it

Tessa why shouldn't I

it is my room does father know about

that new gas stove you've got does he

know you put it down to his account

he'll be in a rato rage when he finds

out you know oh we won't even notice he

hardly notices I'm around these are my

needles don't come to me and say I

didn't tell you so

had a good day father moisture time do

not bother that machine and father why

did I a kiss buy it price he was asking

state it we're in a day wasted it

blasted journey going back to your room

yes well nothing happened then sorry

father

it's shop I left you in charge Apollo

nothing out of the usual mr. preacher

came in to place his order nice to not

make a fortune out her that's Oh when he

told me to tell you that Sunday school

teacher mr. Schue Shannon's sure huh

what about him oh nothing really

you said he'd been taken ill in the

workhouse he said he was which one big

pond which workout the Bastille don't

they call the place and what time of the

day did you notice when mr. pre-k was in

what time about half-past three I think

it was well I couldn't tell you before

father that I haven't seen you avoid

I don't know

he's Aramco sometimes I'm organizing it

now mr. Klain they'll be able to say man

just a very few minutes now I think

you'll find you're quite cozy in here

but if there's anything you want just

tank all this bowel and someone will be

with you right away

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hey what's your name clay Unger clay

under stones still there

come on keep me still no merry children

how many just these tow dinner cry no

merry children's names are dry sand

merry no ready nine years and seven will

you keep still no you'll be warm in a

bed love very soon quiet

you washed yourselves there and you put

on these clothes and there's no sense in

squawking this way come on this way that

way you can't expecting the or together

these lots of other young lads you there

what we're about to receive may the Lord

make the ladder run away let this be a

lesson to you door I ask all younger

much yours you never do see him

solitaire was given and your charity

scar ungrateful being around a we carry

my other table get his shirt off his

back you must put your faith in God

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we're so sorry to have kept you waiting

mr. Claire if only we'd known you were

coming I do assure you there wouldn't

have been this delay can I say now at

once mr. clang yeah of course you can

shall I leave you alone mr. klieg

you know standard do they yes father

it's a funeral card I want it edged in

blacken on the very best card and I want

them run off this afternoon they're

doing that job for Saul turns father

it's due for delivery tonight asking us

to what they're doing I'm telling you

Stu what they'll do you'll get that card

over to big James now and you tell him

as I say one day first you're a list of

people they're going to and I want

everyone either post tonight I don't

think we get all these in the post

tonight

well you're plastered door that blasts

they say it's stupid on it get them all

on but get yourself Oh what's a big

change now and get this car do the

poster tonight yes

you you you go out you The Paperboy

don't think the special edition of The

Home Rule bill a full report of mr.

Gladstone speech I've had a quick glance

through he wants them to have their own

Parliament in Dublin and be taxing

themselves and controlling the police

and no Irish members at Westminster at

all a separate nation that's what he

sees

well he must be right mustn't it's the

only way be fireworks for the old man

for a day or two but he'd have to get

used to it won't he eh I wish I'd been

at the liberal club tonight there was

some excitement down there all right

I never go out on Tuesday and no that's

Tuesday is one of my studying nights

look I'm just going to look at this

prank way we use Father God do you think

isn't he coming yet no that funeral must

have finished hours ago he's getting old

his father I've never known him for

about like I did oh the poor man was in

the workhouse Eddy

oh yes of course and I'm sorry for him

but what's that - father I don't know

anyway what's gonna read this

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it's week four blasted nothing at all

you had a good boy to us I want you to

have this

I know as you do well

even to hear mr. clay anger

possible evening at the time of cure

but still

such a say mr. clay anger

first day

we got you to thank for this place it's

been said mrs. clay anger you're going

home and your husband's got a job to go

to an awful not be going down pop bank

again I've gotten a job

practice

juice

to the old man

hello father

anything wrong

people go for it

I put it in paper should I put out the

gesso will you better not sit there go

into the dining room a bit better not

sit there is chilli come into the dining

room event

come on

better of that coat off and you well you

ate something

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you