Anna was sitting before the fire a little distance from him—Ennison himself remained standing. She was very pale, but she reminded him more at that minute than at any time of “Alcide” as he had first known her. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. A curious silence ensued. Ruth was something to study for future copy; she was almost unbelievable. Many’s the young ’un I’ve seen get hisself into just such a knuckleheaded mess all on account of a pretty wench. A bumper round, gentlemen. Here was a little corner of the past—a tragic corner. While the girl kept the patient from dwelling upon his misfortunes, whatever these were, he himself would have to keep the girl from brooding over hers. Miraculously, her schoolmates were so upswept in their own summer planning that they had no time to interrogate her. " "I'm sorry. "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. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.
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