“It is your sister and her husband,” he said. “He was alive at four o’clock this afternoon,” she answered, “but the doctors
give little hope of his recovery. "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. Bottles and glasses usurped the place of
dishes and plates. Easily I could have killed you. CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. Her unnatural calm was giving way. Fortescue raised his eyebrows and assumed a light-comedy expression.
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