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Updated: June 11, 2025
Yet to speak of Dagworthy might make her father uneasy in his position at the mill would inevitably do so. Therein lay a new dread. Was Dagworthy capable of taking revenge upon her father? Oh surely, surely not! The words passed her lips involuntarily. She would not, she could not, believe so ill of him; had he not implored her to do him justice?... When Mr.
'Here you are then; take him in, and tell them I want some tea; say I have friends with me. The child was carried away, roaring obstreperously, and Dagworthy, laughing at the vocal power displayed, led the way round to the back of the house. Here had been constructed elaborate kennels; several dogs were pacing in freedom about the clean yard, and many more were chained up.
I really believe Mrs. Hood is dead; at all events all the blinds were down as I came past. 'Yes, was the reply, 'she is dead. She died early this morning. 'Well, I never! Isn't poor Emily having a shocking Christmas! I declare, when I saw her last week, she looked like a ghost, and worse. Dagworthy gazed at the fire and said nothing.
'Mean it? he repeated, 'why, yes, as much as I mean anything. Be off; you're keeping that poor devil in the snow. 'Mr. Dagworthy, I shall be here, and you daren't pretend to forget, or to say you weren't in earnest. He laughed and waved his hand. 'Be off to your carriage! Jessie moved to the door reluctantly; but he did not turn again, and she departed. Upon Emily had fallen silence.
The second thing done was that her father abandoned his office, and obtained a place in the counting-house of a worsted-mill, under the firm of Dagworthy and Son. His salary was small, but the blessing of it was its certainty; the precariousness of his existence had all but driven poor Hood mad. There came a season of calm.
This animal came snuffing at Emily's hand, and involuntarily, glad perhaps to have a pretence for averting her face, she caressed the silky ears. 'Fine head, isn't it, Miss Hood? said Dagworthy at once, causing her to remove her hand quickly. 'Ay, but I've a finer collie than that. Just walk in with me, will you? he added, after a scarcely perceptible pause. 'I always like to show off my dogs.
The love of inflicting pain for its own sake, an element of human nature only overgrown by civilisation, was showing itself strongly in Dagworthy. He was prolonging this scene.
It was popularly said that 'owd Dick Dagworthy' would shrink from no dirty trick to turn a sixpence, but was as likely as not to give it away as soon as he had got it.
Dagworthy, she said, 'and you can compel me to hear whatever you choose to say. But I have no other answer than that you know. I wish to leave you. His flushed eagerness could not at once adapt itself to another tone. 'No, you don't wish to leave me. You want to see that I am a man of my word, that I mean what I say, and am not afraid to stick to it.
The lady gave him full information. 'I fear I could not see Mrs. Hood? Dagworthy said. 'Oh, she is far too ill! was the reply. Having assured himself on this point, Dagworthy took his leave, and, when the carriage was remote, rode to the house. He made fast the reins to the gate, entered, and knocked at the door. A girl who did subordinate work for the nurses opened.
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