CHAPTER XVIII. Ann Veronica’s experiences of men had been among more stable types—Teddy, who was always absurd; her father, who was always authoritative and sentimental; Manning, who was always Manning. How can he help you?” She threw such a look upon him that even he, Sir John Ferringhall, carpetmerchant, hide-bound Englishman, slow-witted, pompous, deliberate, felt his heart beat to music. ’ ‘I know,’ he said, smiling. No good at all. But this was not a season in which to be needlessly scrupulous. Her back stiffened. "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. The elastic spirits of youth resumed their sway; and, before the coach stopped, his tears had ceased to flow. The doctor paced the room half a dozen times. A hansom stopped a little way off. When the lad is fit to be moved, we’ll bring him home. He made it more and more evident to her that her proper course was not to earn a salary but to accumulate equipment. The trio exhibited that indecisive air with which Ah Cum was tolerably familiar. ‘You wouldn’t know one end of a pistol from the other.
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