"
"A mother's blessing on you," replied Mrs. "Stay!" cried Wood, "this is a most perplexing business—if you really are privy
to the affair——"
"We'll talk of it to-morrow, Sir," returned Jackson, cutting him short. ‘Signed by a priest at Le Havre, so it
must be true. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. ‘You do not want to be a nun,’ he said now, and Melusine noted with a prick at
her senses the irritation in his tone. “I’m five years older
than you, and no end wiser, being a man. It was
at the age of five, when it became clear that she would
not be followed by a brother, that he became more
distant towards her and stopped adoring her. If you had any
idea what depths people have sunken to as you reside
safely in this high fortress, you would search your soul to
find the mote of charity left there. It is bad
policy. I
can no longer bear to address you by that formal madame. The Widgett method of thought puzzled her weakly rhetorical
mind. O'Higgins know the truth; he wouldn't be reckless with the
funds, then. “I’ll go,” he said, “but I warn you that I shall find you out.
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