"
"Ah, my father! The way you treated him…!"
"Good money after bad. “I do not lay claim,” he continued, “to any remarkable amount of insight, but it
is possible, is it not, that I have stumbled upon your present cause of distress. He dashed against the screen door before she could catch him and made the
veranda. It will
cost them something to repair their stronghold, and take them more time to build
it up again than I have taken to pull it down. The odd creak was not to be avoided in an old house such as this. What do you think people will make of that? What will this
lover of yours make of that?”
At intervals Ann Veronica demanded to go, declaring her undying resolve to
repay him at any cost, and made short movements doorward. Sheppard's attention; and no sooner did
she in some degree recover from the shock occasioned by the sight of her son's
debased condition, than, regardless of any other consideration except his instant
removal from the contaminating society by which he was surrounded, and utterly
forgetting the more cautious plan she meant to have adopted, she rushed into the
room, and summoned him to follow her. That is what they call these aristocratic refugees,
the English. ”
“No doubt. The cloth was removed, and
Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk
—put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best
consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now
be fairly termed—to their own conversation. I am sure
it will be good, John, and I could eat anything. His demeanour then was sober enough to lend
colour to that belief. . He felt her observance and warmed to it. Particularly when it was obvious the fellow was one of these
pitiful wretches weak enough to allow themselves to be ousted from their
inheritances and thus obliged to come seeking succour of their neighbours.
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