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"Well, Jones was there. Jones was with Brisket, and Jones told him that if he'd come forward now he should have a hundred down, and a promise from the firm for the rest of it." "Then Jones is a scoundrel." "I don't know about that," said Mrs. Poppins. "Maryanne is his wife's sister, and he's bound to do the best he can by her.
And after all he said!" A glimmering of the truth struck coldly upon Robinson's heart. She had endeavoured to get from her father this sum and had failed. She had failed, and the old man had sworn to her that he had it not. But for what purpose had she so eagerly demanded it? "Maryanne," he said, "if you love another more fondly than you love me " "Don't bother about love, George, now.
Robinson, however, who was then devotedly attached to her, was of that opinion, and was ready to maintain his views against any man who would dare to say that it was red. There was a dash about Maryanne Brown at that period which endeared her greatly to Mr. Robinson.
"I'm sure that fellow's following us," said Sarah Jane, looking back at him with all her scorn. "There's no law against that, I suppose," said Maryanne, tartly. So much as that Mr. Robinson did succeed in hearing. The girls entered their mother's house; but as they did so, Maryanne lingered for a moment in the doorway. Was it accident, or was it not?
There was an angry spot on her cheeks, and it was manifest from the tone of her voice that she was about to address her father in anger. "Oh, George; so you are there, are you? I suppose you came, because you knew I was out." "I came, Maryanne," said he, putting out his hand to her, "I came to settle our wedding day." "My children, my children!" said Mr. Brown.
"And I would that your nuptials with that man in Aldersgate Street were already celebrated." "Oh, you cruel, heartless man!" "For then I should be able to rest. If you were once another's, I should then know " "You would know what, Mr. Robinson?" "That you could never be mine. Maryanne!" "Sir!" "If you would not have me disgrace myself for ever by my folly, leave me now." "Disgrace yourself!
When I buys a score of sheep or so, I pays for them down; and when I sells a leg of mutton, I expects no less myself. I don't owe a shilling to no one, and don't mean; and the less that any one owes me, the better I like it. But Maryanne, when a man trades in that way, a man must see his way. If he goes about in the dark, or with his eyes shut, he's safe to get a fall.
"That's all very well, sir, but it won't keep the kettle a-boiling!" "As long as I have a bit to eat of, Maryanne, and a cup to drink of, you shall have the half." "And what am I to do when you won't have neither a bit nor a cup? That's what you're coming to, father. We can all see that. What's the use of all them lawyers?" "That's Jones's doing," said Robinson. "No; it isn't Jones's doing.
She had been for the last six months her mother's pet, as Sarah Jane had been her father's darling. There was some excuse, therefore, for Maryanne when she endeavoured to get what she could in the scramble. Sarah Jane played the part of Goneril to the life, and would have denied her father the barest necessaries of existence, had it not ultimately turned out that the property was his own.
"All I want is your own self," said Robinson. "Then you won't mind going into lodgings for a few months," said Brown. Robinson would have put up with an attic, had she he loved consented to spread her bridal couch so humbly; but Maryanne declared with resolution that she would not marry till she saw herself in possession of the rooms over the shop.
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