Shrinking involuntarily back into the farthest corner of the seat, Jack buried his
face in his hands. He seemed inexorable, and
inscrutable as fate itself. ’
‘I thought you were dead,’ Melusine confided. "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. Mrs Sindlesham’s
wrinkled cheek had paled, and her eyes were fixed upon Gerald in a look that
wrung his heart. Only you won’t let me exist!”
Mr. Cautiously stepping outside, he looked up towards the terrace. She was retuning,
fifths spilling from the sliver of light underneath the door
like milk.
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