There were seven tales in all—short stories—a method of expression quite
strange to her, after the immense canvases of Dickens and Hugo. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. Not a star could be discerned, but, in their stead, streaks
of lurid radiance, whence proceeding it was impossible to determine, shot ever
and anon athwart the dusky vault, and added to the ominous and threatening
appearance of the night. Although Melusine had taken care to trouble herself about the hand she had
cut, and was glad to find it healing very well. His clothes had evidently seen some service, and were
plentifully begrimed with the dust of the workshop. Here and there, a building might be
seen with the doors and windows driven in, and all access to it prevented by the
heaps of bricks and tilesherds. But this wild scheme was speedily abandoned; and, nerved by despair,
the carpenter resolved to hazard an attempt, from the execution, almost from the
contemplation, of which he had hitherto shrunk. Anything that had love in
it!
The doctor comprehended that he also had his work cut out. It had been his fevered imagination that had endued the garment with
some extraordinary value. She
glanced at him. The mere fact that he was there in the train alongside her, helping her,
sitting opposite to her in the dining-car, presently sleeping on a seat within a
yard of her, made her heart sing until she was afraid their fellow passengers
would hear it. Her moods were many and always striking. "Yes, yes," replied Edgeworth Bess.
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