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Updated: May 25, 2025
I promise you the money on the day when the advertisement appears in the newspaper. The risk of the housekeeper's rejecting me is my risk not yours. My good looks are sadly gone off, I know. But I think I can still hold my place against the other servants I think I can still look the parlor-maid whom Admiral Bartram wants.
Bartram and Eleanor met one afternoon, in their customary manner, on the principal street of the village, and walked along side by side for quite a way, finally turning and sauntering through several residence streets, talking with each other on a number of subjects, probably of no great consequence, but apparently very interesting to both of them.
Nevertheless, he must have felt what was in her mind; for, as he cut out the quarter of a dried apple pie, he said carelessly: "I must go down to the Lion, this afternoon. There's a fresh drove of Maryland cattle just come." "Oh Harry!" cried Betty, in real distress. "I know," he answered; "but as Miss Bartram is going to stay two weeks, she'll keep.
You are a higher being to him, and he stupidly adores you. Think, yes, DARE to think of all the prosaic realities of life, shared with him!" Miss Bartram felt herself growing dizzy. Behind the impulse which bade her cast herself upon his breast swept such a hot wave of shame and pain that her face burned, and she dropped her eyelids to shut out the sight of his face.
Putting strong constraint upon himself, he assumed a gay geniality of manner which his looks belied, and boldly advanced to the door. But Mrs. Wedmore flung her arms round her husband in a capacious embrace, dragging him backward with an energy there was no use resisting. "No, no, no, George! I won't have you expose yourself to those horrid roughs! Don't open the door, Bartram! Put up the bolt!"
This was not what the visitor had expected; nevertheless, it is a lawyer's business to know more than one way of putting a thing. "See here, Sam; I need a new pair of shoes, soft leather, thin soles, good cut; do you suppose you know how to measure me for them?" "Well, I guess I've found out that much, Mr. Bartram."
He had been waiting, probably, in the adjoining room. I hurried into my chamber, with Milly at my side, and there my agitation found relief in tears, as that of girlhood naturally does. A little while after we saw from the window Dudley, looking, I thought, very pale, get into a vehicle, on the top of which his luggage lay, and drive away from Bartram. I began to take comfort.
If you can't say just what you want to, try to put it as clearly as you can. I didn't come in to worry you. Remember that I really want some distinct information on the subject." Sam looked up keenly, and said, "Mr. Bartram, are you in earnest?"
Contradictory as it may sound, Admiral Bartram was too familiar to be approached; he kept the distance between himself and his servant more effectually than if he had been the proudest man in England. The systematic reserve of a superior toward an inferior may be occasionally overcome the systematic familiarity never. Slowly the time dragged on.
If ever you loved or pitied me, dear cousin, I conjure you, help me in this extremity. Take me away from this. Oh, darling, for God's sake take me away! 'Your distracted and terrified cousin, 'Bartram-Haugh. I sealed this letter jealously, as if the inanimate missive would burst its cerements, and proclaim my desperate appeal through all the chambers and passages of silent Bartram.
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