Thankfully only the children were home, so there was no one to take active notice that she had been accompanied on her way home from school. Ann Veronica thought the whole affair rather jolly. "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. And thus he was once more free, having effected one of the most wonderful escapes ever planned or accomplished. As if he read her thought, he spoke it aloud. She forced herself not to think of John. “Please forgive me, Lucy. So perfect was the illusion, that he could almost fancy he heard the solemn voice of the ordinary warning him that his race was nearly run, and imploring him to prepare for eternity. Her hair once more was arranged with its old simplicity. If you want me, you know where to find me. She danced with two others. She rose at once with a little exclamation, half of surprise, half of pleasure. “We played at love-making in Paris. But ere the words could find utterance, her maternal tenderness overcame her indignation; and, sinking upon her knees, she extended her arms over her child.
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