Marriage was a taboo subject between them. Had
he had the child to think of, he might have recovered from his grief at Mary’s
death. Possessed, at one time, of a share in the South Sea stock, he conceived himself
worth twenty thousand pounds. "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. *****
From the comatose state, Spurlock passed into that of the babbling fever; but that
guarding instinct which is called subconsciousness held a stout leash on his
secret. ‘Come, come, ma’am,’ he said smiling. 1. "Have you
broken out of the cage, Jack?"
"Something like it," replied the lad carelessly. Ran in the family. I fought. She shrugged her shoulders. “Indeed,” she said, “I would not. Never for a moment had violence come between these two since long ago he
had, in spite of her mother’s protest in the background, carried her kicking and
squalling to the nursery for some forgotten crime. The kiss was powerfully moving.
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