“Sometimes it is not bad. “You doubted me?” She joked. Chapter Seven
‘Oh, my God,’ burst from Gerald. Chapter XXII
AN OLD FOOL
Lady Ferringhall made room for him on the sofa by her side. I have work there. For hours
after she had not been sensible to life, only to exquisite echoes. She addressed Anna with a
beaming smile and a very creditable mixture of condescension and officiousness. ”
They hesitated. She thought of how much she
wanted to eat the foods she had once feasted on that now
smelled as innocuous as spring flowers. Her state of mind would have seemed altogether discreditable to her
grandmother. "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. I wonder if some of them did—and it didn’t get
reported. ’
Gerald drew his breath in sharply as Lord Charvill took a step towards his
granddaughter, thrusting out his head. Ennison
seemed to feel already the shadow of tragedy approaching.
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