The
old fool’s been working on you through your sister to keep off the stage. Wood's reception of the
widow, who, at that moment, was ushered into the room by Winifred, was not
particularly kind and encouraging. "
"I feel it," replied Jack, in a tone of agony, "and I feel it more on my poor
mother's account than my own. “No!” Her thoughts had turned in a new direction. There was all the knavery, and more than all the drollery
of a Spanish picaroon in the laughing eyes of the English apprentice; and, with a
little more warmth and sunniness of skin on the side of the latter, the
resemblance between them would have been complete. ’
Lucy giggled. For a moment she thought of
saying yes, and then filled with shame. Divers plans and figures were chalked
upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for
the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The
History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an
abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all
manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's
Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend
gentleman and the principal members of his flock. Are you prepared to
do it?”
Her hands clenched. The poor old imbecile! Why, this child was a firebrand, a wrecker, if ever he had
seen one; and the worst kind because she was unconscious of her gifts.
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