The slack of her ridinghabit and full under-petticoats was gathered into her left hand, and her booted
ankles were visible as she held the skirts well out of her way. Of course she had often heard sailors hammering out their ditties. It will
cost them something to repair their stronghold, and take them more time to build
it up again than I have taken to pull it down. "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. Almost the last female to bear the name, too,’ muttered the old lady. ’
‘Oh, that,’ Gerald said cautiously.
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