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Your whole property, except the house and furniture, has been dissipated in gas and carbon; yesterday he talked of mortgaging the house, and in answer to a remark of mine, he cried out, 'The devil! It was the first sign of reason I have known him show for three years." Madame Claes pressed the notary's arm, and said in a tone of suffering, "Keep it secret."
"I've been thinkin ye're no just a here-a-wa man, by your tongue," said she; "an', if I'm no mista'en, ye've seen better days; for, when I was bringin butt your wet claes to get them dried, though your bit jacket an' your breeks were just corduroy, I couldna help noticin that there is no a bit bonnier linen inowre our door than the sark ye had on."
She asked herself if Claes were not seeking a domestic slave, one who would necessarily keep the house? whether he had himself no secret imperfection which obliged him to be satisfied with a poor, deformed girl? Such perpetual misgivings gave a priceless value to the few short hours during which she trusted the sincerity and the permanence of a love which was to avenge her on the world.
Nothing in the Leaf family was ever cast off till its very last extremity of decay; the talent that "Gars auld claes look amaist as gude's the new" being specially possessed by Hilary. She counted over her own wardrobe and Johanna's but found nothing that could be spared. "Yes, my love, there is one thing.
Both women felt, no doubt, that sad and mutual confidences must now be made between them; the daughter looked at the mother, the mother at the daughter, tears flowing from their eyes. Several times, as Madame Claes rested from her writing, Marguerite said: "Mother?" then she dropped as if choking; but the mother, occupied with her last thoughts, did not ask the meaning of the interrogation.
"Bring some dry claes. Jenny, an' get some warm watter bottles in the bed. Puir thing, she's in an awfu' state. She's a' tremblin' an' maun hae been awfu' ill," and she worked with and stripped the wet clothes from the girl and soon had her in bed, but in spite of all her efforts Mysie remained unconscious.
He stopped me again: "Dinna mak' it waur wi' yir explanations. I un'erstaun' fine. I un'erstaun' noo why they ca' ye a feenished preacher ye're damn weel feenished for me an' Betsy. Ye're a wolf in sheep's claes, an' I'm sair at hairt the nicht."
To prevent the sale of the House of Claes, Gabriel and Pierquin were paying the interest of the sums which their father had again borrowed on it. None of his children had the slightest influence upon the old man, who at seventy years of age displayed extraordinary energy in bending everything to his will, even in matters that were trivial.
Monsieur de Solis made Marguerite see that her petty economies would never produce a fortune, and he advised her to live more at ease, by taking all that remained of the sum which Madame Claes had entrusted to him for the comfort and well-being of the household. During these months Marguerite fell a prey to the anxieties which beset her mother under like circumstances.
But so it will be wherever Miss Morton goes in they fantastic claes. Now, Miss Jan, tell me the honest truth did you ever see a self-respecting, respectable servant in the like o' yon? Does she look like any servant you've ever heard tell of out of a stage-play?" "Not a bit, Hannah; she looks exactly like herself, and therefore not in the least like any other person. Don't you worry.
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