She seemed to have
no idea whatever of the emotional states that were becoming to her age and
position. ”
“That’s a question of detail,” said Ann Veronica. And they pay her. “I am afraid your
broken dinner engagement will not be so easy to explain. Leaving the panel wide, Melusine dashed to the library door and flung
it open, racing into the hall. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat
bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never
materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. The momentary alarm over, he threw a piece of-wash leather over a
bureau, so as to deaden the sound, and instantly broke it open with a small crowbar. "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. That’s why I chucked Manning. ”
Lucy added, growing weary.
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