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"If Mr. Melleville will pay you four hundred dollars a year, take his offer and leave Mr. Jasper. It will be a gain rather than a loss to us." "A gain, Edith?" "Yes, a gain in all that is worth having in life peace of mind flowing from a consciousness of right action. Will money buy this? No, Edward.
The wife spoke with a sudden, trembling eagerness, and held her breath for an answer. "I will leave my present place, and return to Mr. Melleville." "God be thanked!" came sobbing from the lips of Edith, as she threw herself in unrestrained joy upon the bosom of her husband. "I don't just understand this," said Jasper to himself, after the interview with his clerk described in another chapter.
There was a tract of land somewhere in the State, taken for debt; but it was considered of little account." "Regard for the child has nothing to do with this movement," remarked Mr. Melleville. "The character of Jasper precludes the supposition." "Entirely. What can it mean? The thing comes on me so suddenly that I am bewildered." Claire was distressed.
"In my mind you are fully justified," was the reply of Mr. Melleville. "Keep me fully advised of every thing that occurs, and I will aid you as far as lies in my power. To-day I will call upon Edgar & Co., and do what I can toward securing for you the place said by Jasper to be vacant. I presume that I have quite as much influence in this quarter as he has."
So soon as my mind was fully made up to leave your employment, I called to see my old friend, Mr. Melleville; stated to him, frankly and fully, what I thought and felt; and asked him if he could not make room for me in his store. Parker doubtless overheard a part of what we were saying, and reported it to you.
This is no light matter, Mr. Jasper." "Well said, young man. It is no light matter, as you will, perhaps, know to your sorrow in the end. Don't suppose, for a moment, that I shall either forget or forgive this outrage. Leave me because I cheat in my business!" An expression of unmitigated contempt was on his face. "Poh! What hypocrisy! I know you! And let Mr. Melleville beware.
"What can this mean?" Thus mused Leonard Jasper, when alone. "Can this scoundrel, Martin, have dropped a hint of the truth?" A slight shiver went through his nerves. "Something is wrong. There is suspicion in the thought of Melleville. I didn't look for trouble in this quarter."
"What is that, Mr. Melleville?" "The salary will be only four hundred dollars a year." "I shall expect no more from you." "But can you live on that sum now? Remember, that you have been receiving five hundred dollars, and that your wants have been graduated by your rate of income. Let me ask have you saved any thing since you were married?" "Nothing." "So much the worse.
Melleville said "I have called to ask you a question or two in regard to a child of the late Mr. Elder, to whom you are guardian." The blood came instantly to the face of Jasper, who was not prepared for this; and in spite of his struggle to seem self-possessed, his eyes sank under those of his visitor. In a few moments, he recovered himself, and replied
"And is willing to meet privation to step down into even a humbler sphere, so that her husband be removed from the tempting influence of the god of this world?" "She is, Mr. Melleville. Ah! I only wish that I could look upon life as she does. That I could see as clearly that I could gather, as she is gathering them in her daily walk, the riches that have no wings."
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