Unless women are never
to be free, never to be even respected, there must be a generation of martyrs. That
same adventurousness that had already buoyed her through crises that would
have overwhelmed any normally feminine girl with shame and horror now
became uppermost again. "
Her ear caught much of the lesson, and many things she stored away; but often
what she heard was sound without sense. "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. She had a horrible glimpse of the once
nice little old lady being also borne stationward, still faintly battling and very
muddy—one lock of grayish hair straggling over her neck, her face scared,
white, but triumphant. “You will be so late. “Your father, of course,” he said, “must come to realize just how Splendid you
are! He doesn’t understand. We were properly married, and the certificate
is at my lawyer’s. Late in July he finished the fourth story. ‘I ain’t done nothing wrong, I swear it.
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