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But if you choose to do so it is not for me to set you against such an act of justice. Then she paused and looked up to Hetta as though expecting a reply. But Hetta had no reply to make. All had been said that she had come to hear. Every word that the woman had spoken had in truth been a comfort to her.
Good bye, Mr Montague. I think you had better lose no time in going back to Mrs Hurtle. All this she said with sundry little impedimentary gurgles in her throat, but without a tear and without any sign of tenderness. 'You don't mean to tell me, Hetta, that you are going to quarrel with me! 'I don't know about quarrelling. I don't wish to quarrel with any one.
Of course Hetta must live wherever her mother lived till she should marry; but Hetta's life was so much at her own disposal that her mother did not feel herself bound to be guided in the great matter by Hetta's predispositions. But she must tell Hetta should she ultimately make up her mind to marry the man, and in that case the sooner this was done the better.
'I wish you to have some opinion of your own as to what is proper for you. 'I hope I have. I am sorry you should think that I have not. 'I am old-fashioned, Hetta. 'And we belong to a newer and worse sort of world. I dare say it is so. You have been always very kind, but I almost doubt whether you can change us, now. I have sometimes thought that you and mamma were hardly fit for each other.
'They would let you overdraw for £50 or £60. 'I will not do it. I will not starve myself and Hetta. You had ever so much money only lately. I will get some things for you, and pay for them as I can if you cannot pay for them after your marriage; but I have not money to give you. 'That's a blue look-out, said he, turning himself in his chair 'just when £60 or £70 might make a fellow for life!
'He always comes here when I am away, said Lady Carbury. 'That has been an accident. He could not have known that you were going to Messrs. Leadham and Loiter's. 'I'm not so sure of that, Hetta. 'Then, mamma, you must have told him yourself, and I don't think you knew till just before you were going. But, mamma, what does it matter? He has been here, and I have told him
'Oh, don't you know, Hetta Mary went home this morning because Henry asked her where his boots were, and she thought he wanted her to clean them. 'Can't Mrs. Shillabeer come in! 'Mrs. Shillabeer said she would never come in again, because Averil asked her not to hold the ham by the bone and cut it with her own knife when Henry was there! Come, Ella it is of no use.
"But he should be more modest in talking on such matters with a minister," said Hetta. The Rev. Phineas acknowledged that perhaps he should; but he was honest enough to repeat that the lad had stuff in him. "Perhaps after all he is not a wolf," said the widow to herself. Things went on in this way for above a month.
She spent the evening quite alone; for Hetta was staying down in Suffolk, with her cousin's friend, Mrs Yeld, the bishop's wife; and as she thought of her life past and her life to come, she did, perhaps, with a broken light, see something of the error of her ways, and did, after a fashion, repent.
"But we have done very well hitherto without winter lodgers." "But uncle Bell said she was to." "What is uncle Bell to us?" said Hetta, who had a spirit of her own. And she began to surmise within herself whether Aaron Dunn would join the Baptist congregation, and whether Phineas Beckard would approve of this new move.
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