“I think,” he said, “that some one ought to warn her. To receive
him here afterwards would be most repugnant to me. It is in vain to struggle against the arm of fate. \"I don't want to hurt you. "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. The nuns wore their habit, and said all their offices, and
went about their tasks unobtrusively, relieving the poor and needy and tending
the sick. Crossing several fields, newly mown, or filled with
lines of tedded hay, she arrived, not without great exertion, at the summit of a
hill. He allowed his irons and clothes to be taken
off without resistance. She wanted to cry out
upon herself for the uttermost fool in existence. “Do you mind very much?”
He shook his head. But at least it gave her
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paragraph 1. Don't suppose," she
added, with a scornful glance at her helpmate, "that I would pay him the
compliment of thinking he could possibly be the father of such a boy as you. I have always been lonely.
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