Things were thrown
here and there, to be taken up, or again cast aside, as the whim arose; while the
broken-backed chairs and crazy table bore the marks of many a conflict. When she saw
however that this man was a stranger, and obviously harmless, her expression
changed as though by magic. “Don’t you get it, Lucy? I’ve always thought he was
an idiot. She ought to have leapt back on guard. Imbecile. “I have hurt my father,” she said; “I have hurt my aunt. Spurling: "I blush for you, Sir! To call
yourself a man, and interfere with the natural course of affection! Have you no
feeling for the situation of those poor disconsolate creatures, about to be
bereaved of all they hold dear? Is it nothing to part with a husband to the
gallows? I've lost four in the same way, and know what it is. . Then
a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as
amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined—
to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a
great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon
molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. But she
wished she could put the thing she had done in some way to them so that it
would not hurt them so much as the truth would certainly do.
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