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It was the most foolish thing Arthur Carrollton had ever done, hiring George Douglas to search!" "Hiring him, grandma!" cried Theo; "George offered his services for nothing," and the tears came to her eyes at the injustice done her husband. But Madam Conway persisted in being unreasonable, and matters grew gradually worse until the day when Margaret was found at the Falls.
"Shall it be so, my dear?" he said, again taking one of her hands. "You want to be a nurse; will you be my nurse? Nay; I will not ask, but it shall be so. They say that the lovers who demand are ever the most successful. I make my demand. Tell me, Margaret, will you obey me?" He had walked on now, but in order that his time might be sufficient, he led her away from the house.
"Well, you do admit that there are rich and poor. That's something." Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself? "You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom."
Morris spoke cheerfully enough of these changes, smiled as if amused at the idea of her leaving her young ladies; and did not doubt but that, if Miss Margaret would lend her a helping hand sometimes, she should be able to preserve the credit of the family. There was something more to be done than to lend this helping hand in the lighter domestic offices.
Margaret Fuller the Miranda, Zenobia, Hypatia, Minerva of her time, and a truly remarkable figure in the gallery of wonderful women edited it for two years, and contributed many a vivid, dashing, exuberant, ebullient page.
She felt the little arm tremble in her clasp and her hand tightened upon it as a mother's might have done. "Now, we have had enough of this," said she, "quite enough. Margaret, you must positively go home at once. I will take your suit-case, and return it to you to-morrow. I shall be out driving. You can get in without being seen, can't you?"
It was undoubtedly no light task to meet the king's expectations without infringing the rights of the people and the duties of humanity; but in struggling to effect these two contradictory objects Margaret had accomplished neither. She had deeply injured the nation, while comparatively she had done little service to the king.
Margaret Gannion straightened up and spoke with a sudden assumption of dignity which seemed to add inches to her moral and physical stature. "To what are you referring, Mr. Thayer?" "I beg your pardon. I thought you knew. I am talking about Lorimer." "What about him?" Man as he was, Thayer flinched under her keen eyes.
"In that case," he continued his train of thought, "no more mast-heads." "Good morning, Countess; Lady Victoria, good morning," he said, bowing. "I would take off my hat if I could, but the Doctor has set the cap of liberty on high." Lady Victoria and the Duke laughed, but Margaret said "Good morning" without a smile.
Elinor rose to lead the way to the rooms where they would dress. "I don't believe he knows a single thing," she said emphatically. "Margaret isn't a chatterbox and it was too bitterly cold on the streets today for any lengthy confidences. Come along and get into your festive togs we don't want to miss a single minute, and dinner is very early tonight."
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