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Updated: May 17, 2025
Meekly Lady Montfort advanced, bringing in her hand the tray with the broth-basin. "Yes, I heard! I must not keep you; but let me help while I stay." So the broth was poured forth and prepared, and with it Arabella disappeared. She returned in a few minutes, beckoned to Caroline, and said in a low voice: "Come in say you forgive him! Oh, you need not fear him; a babe could not fear him now!"
Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, 'Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats! I am very miserable! only that I doubted, even at that pass, if Mrs. Crupp were quite the sort of woman to confide in!
Her daughter was one of the foremost of the bevy of young women who decorated the churches at Easter and Christmas, was organist in one of those edifices, and had subscribed to the testimonial of a silver broth-basin that was presented to the Reverend Mr. Walker as a token of gratitude for his faithful and arduous intonations of six months as sub-precentor in the Cathedral.
She is shown by Bridget Greggs into a small room upon the first floor; folding-doors to some other room closely shut evidences of sickness in the house; phials on the chimneypiece a tray with a broth-basin on the table a saucepan on the hob the sofa one of those that serve as a bed, which Sleep little visits, for one who may watch through the night over some helpless sufferer a woman's shawl thrown carelessly over its hard narrow bolster; all, in short, betraying that pathetic untidiness and discomfort which says that a despot is in the house to whose will order and form are subordinate; the imperious Tyranny of Disease establishing itself in a life that, within those four walls, has a value not to be measured by its worth to the world beyond.
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