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Updated: May 24, 2025
I determined to tell you that you are not justified in these proceedings, and that they are injurious to his sister. 'Are you her schoolmaster as well as her brother's? Or perhaps you would like to be? said Eugene. It was a stab that the blood followed, in its rush to Bradley Headstone's face, as swiftly as if it had been dealt with a dagger.
Bradley Headstone's face had changed during this latter recital, and he had observed the speaker with a more sustained attention. 'Do you know, said he, after a pause, during which they walked on side by side, 'that I believe I could tell you your name, if I tried? 'Prove your opinion, was the answer, accompanied with a stop and a stare. 'Try. 'Your name is Riderhood.
The convulsive twitching of Bradley Headstone's face, and the sudden hot humour that broke out upon it, showed how grimly the intelligence touched him. But he said not a single word, good or bad. He only smiled in a lowering manner, and got up and stood leaning at the window, looking through it. Riderhood followed him with his eyes. Riderhood cast down his eyes on his own besprinkled clothes.
Not that I want to disparage Miss Jenny Wren: I dare say she is all very well in her way; but her way is not your way as Mr Headstone's wife. Now, you see, Liz, on all three accounts on Mr Headstone's, on mine, on yours nothing could be better or more desirable. They were walking slowly as the boy spoke, and here he stood still, to see what effect he had made.
As Mr Headstone's wife you would be occupying a most respectable station, and you would be holding a far better place in society than you hold now, and you would at length get quit of the river-side and the old disagreeables belonging to it, and you would be rid for good of dolls' dressmakers and their drunken fathers, and the like of that.
Then I ask him what right has he to do it, and what does he mean by it, and how comes he to be taking such a liberty without my consent, when I am raising myself in the scale of society by my own exertions and Mr Headstone's aid, and have no right to have any darkness cast upon my prospects, or any imputation upon my respectability, through my sister?
Bradley Headstone is really a successful villain; so successful that he fully captures our sympathies. Also there is something original in the very conception. The other good conception is the boy, Bradley Headstone's pupil, with his dull, inexhaustible egoism, his pert, unconscious cruelty, and the strict decorum and incredible baseness of his views of life.
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