The winters were terrible in cold climates, and she
often had been driven to dig herself large underground
pits where she waited it out like a mole in the cold
months. It had been
cut down before life was extinct, but a ball from one of the soldiers had pierced
his heart. Mobs were gathered together on the slightest
possible pretext; and these tumultuous assemblages, while committing the most
outrageous excesses, loudly proclaimed their hatred to the house of Hanover, and
their determination to cut off the Protestant succession. But in a little while you will
awake; and if there is a spark of manhood in you, you will be horrified at this
day's work. "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. You must let me do whatever I can for you. ’
‘Well? Well? What did the fellow have to add to this rigmarole?’
‘He confirmed that Nicholas Charvill—presumably Melusine’s father—had
been disinherited for marrying Suzanne Valade. Hill would have followed her, but Mrs. ’
‘Do you take me for a fool, Hilary?’ demanded his betrothed. The Morning Post was hungry for governesses and nursery governesses,
but held out no other hopes; the Daily Telegraph that morning seemed eager only
for skirt hands.
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