But he was a thief, a fugitive from justice. “This is the slavery of the veiled life. "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. Had he been trying to stop the grim descent,
and had he dimly perceived that perhaps a fine deed would serve as the initial
barrier? A drunken idea—a pearl in the midst of a rubbish heap. I am something of an
old fogey, Anna, I’m afraid, but if you treat me like this you will teach me to
forget it.
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