"Where?" she cried. Part 8
And as she sat on her bed that night, musing and half-undressed, she began to
run one hand down her arm and scrutinize the soft flow of muscle under her
skin. "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. How the deuce, though, am I going to account for her? People will be
asking questions when they see her; and if I tell the truth, they'll start to snubbing
her. “Here’s something rather good,” he said, and with a start and an
effort she took his place at the microscope, while he stood beside her and almost
leaning over her. Do not mistake me. ‘When you’re my age, you’ll be just as
hardheaded. "
"You think so, eh?" chuckled Shotbolt, who was eagerly perusing the reward,
and congratulating himself upon his caution; "you think so—ha! ha! Well, don't
go to bed, that's all. The call of youth to youth, and we name it love for want of something better: a
glamorous, evanescent thing "like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a
little hour or two, was gone.
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