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But do not believe in him. He is a terrific man." This word she emphasized as if doubtful of its meaning. "Ah, if you but knew the inferno of my existence! There are so many like you stop, do not leave! You are not to blame. I, Lillias Kéroulan, do not censure your action. My husband is an evil man and a charlatan. Hear me out! He has only the gift of words.
"I am perishing, Lillias," he said, "with cold an' hunger, an' can gang nae farther; surely ye'll no shut your door on me in a night like this." The poor widow had been taught in a far different school. She relinquished to the worn-out fisherman her seat by the fire, now hurriedly heaped with fresh fuel, and hastened to set before him the simple viands which her cottage afforded.
Bee, choking with sobs never, never, she said to herself, not even when her mother went away, had she felt so miserable, never had Aunt Lillias spoken to her like that before poor Bee rushed off to her room, and shutting the door, threw herself on the floor and wondered what she should do! Mrs. Vincent, if she had only known it, was nearly as unhappy as she.
It doesn't hurt much now," said Bee, "and Fraser looked at it and saw that it was not very bad, and and you had had so many things to trouble you, Aunt Lillias," she added, affectionately. "Yes, dear; but, when I think how much worse they might have been, I dare not complain," Rosy's mother replied. Bee did not go to church that day.
"Why, you are looking quite bright again, my child!" she went on when she looked up at the little figure waiting patiently beside her. "I'm very glad to go out with you," said Bee simply. "And I'm very glad to have you," said Mrs. Vincent. "Aunt Lillias," said Bee, her voice trembling a little, "may I ask you one thing? You don't think I touched Rosy's necklace?" Mrs. Vincent smiled.
Vincent talked about other things old times in India that Bee could remember, and plans for the future when her father and mother should come home again to stay. Only just as they were entering the house on their return, Bee could not help saying, "Aunt Lillias, I wonder if the necklace will never be found." "So do I," said Mrs. Vincent. "I really cannot understand where it can have gone.
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