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Bless me! What A long-winded style, and what a fuss about fifty pounds a year, and a bed in an attic! These were naturally the first emotions which Mr. Batterbury's letter produced in me. What was his real motive for writing it? I hope nobody will do me so great an injustice as to suppose that I hesitated for one instant about the way of finding that out.
Batterbury's family, and of sheer good-nature so far as I am myself concerned, to afford you one more chance of retrieving your position by leading a respectable life. The situation I am enabled to offer you is that of secretary to a new Literary and Scientific Institution, about to be opened in the town of Duskydale, near which neighborhood I possess, as you must be aware, some landed property.
Here was a pretty complication! Here was my sister's handsome legacy made dependent on my outliving my grandmother! This was diverting enough; but Mr. Batterbury's conduct was more amusing still.
My first visit was to the studio of my excellent artist-friend, whom I have already presented to the reader under the sympathetic name of "Dick." He greeted me with a letter in his hand. Batterbury's. Had this philanthropic man not done befriending me even yet? Were there any present or prospective advantages to be got out of him still? Read his letter, and judge.
Her ladyship's appetite has been improved ever since the carriage is out airing of her at this very moment likewise, she takes the footman's arm and the maid's up and downstairs now, which she never would hear of before this last accident. No doubt. Here was the key to Mr. Batterbury's letter of forgiveness.
While calmly awaiting the answer, I was by no means without subjects to occupy my attention when Alicia was not at the prison. I talked a great deal with this man; for I felt that his experience might be of the greatest possible benefit to me. Mr. Batterbury's answer was speedy, short, and punctual.
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