”
“I don’t have power over men’s fates. That he should pay forty pounds to help this girl who preferred another man
was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a
maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. He would be so disappointed. ‘Why do you stand there? Take him up, and bring him out
at once. Why must her old nurse discover her
precisely at this moment?
‘What are you at now, may I ask?’ Martha glared at the footman. Immediately beneath her lay
Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the
metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey
church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. “You are in trouble,” he said. Wood set off at full speed
from the Mint, and, hurrying he scarce knew whither (for there was such a
continual buzzing in his ears and dancing in his eyes, as almost to take away the
power of reflection), he held on at a brisk pace till his strength completely failed
him. And when you reflect how much at heart your poor mother, whose
loss we must ever deplore, had our union, you will, I am persuaded, no longer
refuse me. ”
“You came to tell me this?”
“I came for you,” he declared fiercely. “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than
herself.
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