The
moisture from the sea was constant, and she spent
countless hours staring at the sea from the west tower,
the rise and fall of waves. ’
If she suffered from dragging pain in her joints, Gerald thought it explained
why her features were prematurely lined. They went into Michelle's tiny bedroom, bare except
for a dresser, a closet, and a miniscule single bed that
resembled her own at the Becks. 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. Only
I’m so incensed with that crazy fool Gerald that—oh, well, never mind. All her life Martha
had been there. "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. His voice propelled her to cry even harder, so hard
that she began to laugh behind her tears. All
right! I’m off. The clouds
were nearly black with rain, threatening to spill sleet in
daggers and torrents. He quickly responded to her kiss
and grasped her to him, kissing her deeply. Jests are not for seasons like this.
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