The lonely widows of robber
barons found him irresistible and he was the guest of
many a fine table. ’
‘How shocking. "
"So I perceive," replied Wood. "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. You know
very well that you took from my easel David Courtlaw’s study of me, and sent it
to Cariolus. We ourselves have been similarly circumstanced. Jonathan smiled contemptuously. ’ It’s a duplicate of the French one. Tears sprang to her eyes. "
There was a momentary and terrible silence, broken only by a few feeble groans. "You have forgotten your knife, Mr. "
CHAPTER XIII. ”
“You are sure that he asked for me—not for Annabel?”
“Certain,” Courtlaw answered.
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