‘Why do you think I told
you about the portrait? I’d not seen it, of course, but I’d seen Miss Mary just
before she got married, which is when it was painted. And guess
what? I don’t sleep much, if you haven’t noticed. You'll tell me next, I dare say, that I recommended you to go and
visit his mother so frequently under the plea of charity; to give her wine, and
provisions, and money; to remove her from the only fit quarters for such people
—the Mint; and to place her in a cottage at Willesden, of which you must needs
pay the rent? Marry, come up! charity should begin at home. And for my part, if I were inclined to exercise my benevolence at all, it
should be in favour of some more deserving object than that whining,
hypocritical Magdalene. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. McClintock had brought from
Penang three mangosteen evergreens; and, wonders of wonders, they had thrived
—as trees.
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