When they reached her rooms she stepped
lightly out upon the pavement. Every inch of the house felt safe
to her, small and welcoming. "
"Why what will she say?" inquired Sheppard. He swore when I tried to get it out with the ladle, and told
me what it said. Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. I dare not reflect upon the effect that her son's fate,—if the efforts
to save him are ineffectual,—may have upon her enfeebled frame, and still
worse upon her mind. By this time, several of the terrified domestics appeared with lights. It is not at all comme il faut. Whatever she does is minimized. Has she any funds?"
"She must have. You don’t understand the fix I
am in. Then, if you weren’t looking,
he’d get five feet closer. In
the midst of the holy place, which he had formerly profaned, lay the body of his
unfortunate mother, and he could not help looking upon her untimely end as the
retributive vengeance of Heaven for the crime he had committed. "Ay, good luck to him! so we have," rejoined Terence; "but we've no objection to
take out the dochter's bill in drink.
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