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"I hadn't any interest in Canada, except to get the child away," said Mrs. Hasketh. "Sometimes it seemed strange we should be in Canada, and not Mr. Tedham! She got acquainted with some little girls who were going to a convent school there as externes outside pupils, you know," Mrs. Hasketh explained to my wife. "She got very fond of one of them she is a child of very warm affections.
Hasketh intercepted. "I presume he told you?" she asked. "Yes," I said, "he showed us the letter." "Well, it was something that had to be done. As long as she questioned me about him, I put her off the best way I could, and after a while she seemed to give up questioning me of her own accord.
She was very young-looking, and her voice had a wistful innocence. "Do you think my father will be here again to-night? Oh, I must see him!" I perceived that my wife could not speak, and I said, to gain time, "Why, I've been expecting him to come in at any moment;" and this was true enough. "I guess he's not very far off," said old Hasketh. "I don't believe but what he'll turn up."
Hasketh, we have come on an errand that I know will cause you pain, and I needn't say that we haven't come willingly." "Is it about Mr. Tedham?" asked Mrs. Hasketh, and I remembered now that she had always used as much ceremony in speaking of him; it seemed rather droll now, but still it would not have been in character with her to call him simply Tedham, as we did, in speaking of him.
Perhaps she really began to understand it, or some of the cruel little things she played with said something. I was always afraid of the other children throwing it up to her, and that was one reason we went away for three or four years and let our place here." "I didn't know you were gone," I said toward Hasketh, who cleared his throat to explain: "I had some interests at that time in Canada.
We shook hands with them, and then Mrs. Hasketh said to us in succession, "My niece, Mrs. March; Mr. March, my niece." The young girl had risen, and stood veiled before us, and a sort of heart-breaking appeal expressed itself in the gentle droop of her figure, which did the whole office of her hidden face.
"I don't know what they mean," she went on, appealing from them to us, "by saying that it might be better if I never saw him again!" "I don't say that any more, child," said Mrs. Hasketh, with affecting humility. "I'm sure there isn't any one in the whole world that I would bless the sight of half as much."
March," and he looked across me at her. "Yes, I am almost afraid to think how many," she answered. "Family well?" "Yes, our children are both very well, Mr. Hasketh. You seem to be looking very well, too." "Thank you, I have nothing to complain of. I am not so young as I was. But that is about all." "I hope Mrs. Hasketh is well?" "Yes, thank you, she is quite well, for her.
I was in court when it was pronounced with great solemnity by the judge, who read him a lecture in doing so; I could have read the judge another, for I could not help feeling that it was, more than all the sentences I had ever heard pronounced, wholly out of keeping with the offence. I met Hasketh coming out of the court-room, and I said that I thought it was terribly severe.
I found such an insufficiency in this statement of feeling that I wanted to laugh, but I perceived that it did not appeal to my wife's sense of humor. She said, "I can understand how you feel about it, Mrs. Hasketh." Mrs. Hasketh seemed grateful for the sympathy.
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