It was he
who saw them first coming down the room—Annabel in a wonderful white satin
gown in front, and Sir John stiff, unbending, disapproving, bringing up the rear. "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. ‘He can’t be Valade, that’s certain,’ mused Gerald, unheeding. ”
“It isn’t nice going to prison. ”
“You are not a coward,” she repeated, “or you would not be my friend. “Do come and cheer me up. ”
“I’m afraid it can’t. I shall
start at the bottom. He suggested they take
the remains of the household to his country estate, where
he could at least hunt through the winter to provide them
venison and grouse.
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