His attitude toward her was purely intellectual, free of any sentimentality, utterly selfish. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. I'll write an opera the scene of which shall be laid altogether in Newgate, and the principal character shall be a highmaywan. " "I have a question to propose to you," said Trenchard, "relating to—" and he hesitated. ” Mr. Great sport, eh? To haul them back from the ragged edge. 219 “Some in Europe, a few down south, none here. Kneebone, or, as he would have preferred being styled, Captain Kneebone, was not perfectly satisfied with the recommendations forwarded by the applicants. Mr. ” “But I didn’t lose it that way, did I?” She grew hysterical. "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. He was always doing his best to call her attention to the fact that he was a man of spirit and quality and experience, and she a young and beautiful woman, and that all sorts of constructions upon their relationship were possible, trusting her to go on from that to the idea that all sorts of relationships were possible. The mere fact that he was there in the train alongside her, helping her, sitting opposite to her in the dining-car, presently sleeping on a seat within a yard of her, made her heart sing until she was afraid their fellow passengers would hear it.
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