But this accusation, for want of sufficient evidence, met with the same
fate as the first, and Jonathan came off victorious. Will you be a faithful and honest
wife? Will you do your duty by him, and forget all your past follies? Unless,
Annabel, you can——”
“Oh, I will pledge you my word,” Annabel cried passionately, “my solemn word. "
"Do you want me to tell her that I am grateful?"
"Well, aren't you?"
"I don't know; I really don't know. “I may not see the Widgetts
for some little time, father,” she said. ”
“I forgive you willingly,” Anna said, bending over him. She would not forgive me. "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 see, I have had to look after myself so long that I have
developed a terrible bump of independence. It seemed to emanate from the back of
the house. "
"Your esteem is all he will require," urged Winifred. "How, Sir?"
"Except by adoption. “‘A SONG OF LADIES AND MY LADY
“‘Saintly white and a lily is Mary,
Margaret’s violets, sweet and shy;
Green and dewy is Nellie-bud fairy,
Forget-me-nots live in Gwendolen’s eye. Old Bethlehem, or Bedlam,—every trace of which has been swept away, and the
hospital for lunatics removed to Saint George's Field,—was a vast and
magnificent structure.
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