She was asked to
meet him after his game Saturday afternoon. He never retires to rest
till daybreak—if at all. “I’d never have a day of peace again, John. "Sir Rowland is
your uncle—he will be your guardian—he will protect 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. ‘Certainly no one will find it. He was yellow and coarse of
hair; flea-bitten, too; and even as he smiled at Ruth and wagged his stumpy tail,
he was forced to turn savagely upon one of these disturbers who had no sense of
the fitness of things. He understood now that it was a part of her inheritance. That
wrappered life, as you call it—we’ve burned the confounded rags! Danced out of
it! We’re stark!”
“Stark!” echoed Ann Veronica. “I don’t want to take up your time. You may go back, Marthe. He looked the boy over with
interest. ” She said, embarrassed.
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