For all her begging she had been given the choice to go
into the nunnery and “learn how to read scrolls with the
rest of God’s Spinsters” by her father, but had quickly
lost interest when presented with the idea of bearing
babies. No great lover of state or state costume
at any time, he was generally, towards the close of an evening, completely in
dishabille, and in this condition he now presented himself to his subjects. Perhaps these few words were the first real
conscious words he had uttered in days. And yet the secondary emotion was one of
suspicion. We'll get this chap on his feet if only to learn what the
trouble is. "
"Come, Sir!" thundered the latter, "no trifling! Perhaps," he added, opening a
warrant, "you'll obey this mandate?"
"A warrant!" ejaculated Kneebone, starting to his feet. "
"Alas!" cried Mrs. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’
‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. His spirits
revived, and encouraging himself with the idea that the present impediment,
though the greatest, was the last, he set himself seriously to consider how it
might best be overcome. Living’s just material. I was certain of it. ”
Lucy grew hot. Suppose he stopped all her allowance,
made it imperative that she should either stay ineffectually resentful at home or
earn a living for herself at once. When
other kids got sick at school, they always had Moms who
would rescue them within minutes.
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