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They never could have been, I think, as good as they have been to me, if I had taken them from any other hands. 'Makes her mother nothing! exclaimed Mrs. Markleham. 'Not so mama, said Annie; 'but I make him what he was. I must do that. As I grew up, he occupied the same place still. I was proud of his interest: deeply, fondly, gratefully attached to him.
Do you call that confidence, my love, towards Doctor Strong? I am surprised. You ought to know better. The letter was reluctantly produced; and as I handed it to the old lady, I saw how the unwilling hand from which I took it, trembled. 'Now let us see, said Mrs. Markleham, putting her glass to her eye, 'where the passage is.
Markleham; but our boys used to call her the Old Soldier, on account of her generalship, and the skill with which she marshalled great forces of relations against the Doctor. She was a little, sharp-eyed woman, who used to wear, when she was dressed, one unchangeable cap, ornamented with some artificial flowers, and two artificial butterflies supposed to be hovering above the flowers.
'There is a post come in from India, I observe, he said, after a short silence. 'By the by! and letters from Mr. Jack Maldon! said the Doctor. 'Indeed! 'Poor dear Jack! said Mrs. Markleham, shaking her head. 'That trying climate! like living, they tell me, on a sand-heap, underneath a burning-glass! He looked strong, but he wasn't.
'No one but my husband can judge of that, mama, said Annie without removing her eyes from his face, 'and he will hear me. If I say anything to give you pain, mama, forgive me. I have borne pain first, often and long, myself. 'Upon my word! gasped Mrs. Markleham.
'My dear soul, she said to him one day when I was present, 'you know there is no doubt it would be a little pokey for Annie to be always shut up here. The Doctor nodded his benevolent head. 'When she comes to her mother's age, said Mrs. Markleham, with a flourish of her fan, 'then it'll be another thing.
It died upon my lips, and from that hour till now has never passed them. Mrs. Markleham, with a short groan, leaned back in her easy-chair; and retired behind her fan, as if she were never coming out any more. 'I have never, but in your presence, interchanged a word with him from that time; then, only when it has been necessary for the avoidance of this explanation.
Let us both know what it is that has come between us! Mrs. Markleham, by this time recovering the power of speech, and seeming to swell with family pride and motherly indignation, here exclaimed, 'Annie, get up immediately, and don't disgrace everybody belonging to you by humbling yourself like that, unless you wish to see me go out of my mind on the spot! 'Mama! returned Annie.
'And that's why I so much approve, said Mrs. Markleham, tapping him on the shoulder with her shut-up fan, 'of your thoughtfulness. It shows that you don't expect, as many elderly people do expect, old heads on young shoulders. You have studied Annie's character, and you understand it. That's what I find so charming!
She said so, last night, when I showed her your letter. And yes, to be sure you recollect Mr. Jack Maldon, Copperfield? 'Perfectly, sir. 'Of course, said the Doctor. 'To be sure. He's pretty well, too. 'Has he come home, sir? I inquired. 'From India? said the Doctor. 'Yes. Mr. Jack Maldon couldn't bear the climate, my dear. Mrs. Markleham you have not forgotten Mrs. Markleham?
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