"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. "Is it you?" "It is," replied Sheppard, as he untied the cords. Under his arm he carried a thick, knotted crab-stick. Men do services for the love of women, and the woman who takes must pay. This was enough for the poor widow. " "But why didn't you oppose him?" "I had to let him have his way, else he might not have returned safely. "Rowland," she rejoined, "you strive in vain to terrify me into compliance with your wishes. " The desperate eagerness to go with him—and she dared not voice it! She watched him until McClintock joined him and the two made off toward the south. Her state of mind would have seemed altogether discreditable to her grandmother. She kept opening her eyes and looking at it. They were ingenious disguises of gilt paper destructively gummed, it would seem, to Ann Veronicas’ best dancing-slippers.
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