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Since the commencement of this last attack of Mr. Redmain's malady, she had scarcely slept; and now what Mewks reported rendered her nigh crazy. For some time she had been generally awake half the night, and all the last night she had been wandering here and there about the house, not unfrequently couched where she could hear every motion in Mr. Redmain's room.
If I find you in this room again, without having been called, I will kill you! I am strong enough for that, even without this pain. They won't hang a dying man, and where I am going they will rather like it." Mewks vanished. "You need not mind, my girl," he went on, to Mary. "Everybody knows I am ill very ill.
When she opened the door of it, Mewks came hurriedly to meet her, as if he would have made her go out again, but she scarcely looked at him, and advanced to the bed. Mr. Redmain was just waking from the sleep into which he had fallen after a severe paroxysm. "Ah, there you are!" he said, smiling her a feeble welcome. "I am glad you are come. I have been looking out for you. I am very ill.
If a man like my master's to be converted and get off, I don't for my part see where's the good o' keepin' up a devil." "I am quite of your opinion, Mewks," said Sepia. But in her heart she was ill at ease. All day long she had been haunted with an ever-recurring temptation, which, instead of dismissing it, she kept like a dog in a string. Different kinds of evil affect people differently.
Mewks came, in evident anxiety. I will not record his examination. Mr. Brett took it for granted he had deliberately and intentionally shut out Mary, and Mewks did not attempt to deny it, protesting he believed she was boring his master. The grin on that master's face at hearing this was not very pleasant to behold.
Ho made her an awkward bow as she drew near, and she stopped and had a long conversation with him such at least it seemed to Mewks, annoyed that he could hear nothing of it, and fearful of attracting their attention after which the man went away, and Mary went into the house.
"Hey! stop," he cried, as she was disappearing. "Come back, will you?" "I will find Mr. Mewks," she answered, and went. After this, Mary naturally dreaded conference with Mr. Redmain; and he, thinking she must have time to get over the offense he had given her, made for the present no fresh attempt to come, by her own aid, at a bird's-eye view of her character and scheme of life.
"Show Miss Marston out," said his master; "and tell my coachman to bring the hansom round directly." "For Miss Marston?" inquired Mewks, who had learned not a little cunning in the service. "No!" roared Mr. Redmain; and Mewks darted from the room, followed more leisurely by Mary. "I don't know what's come to master!" ventured Mewks, as he led the way down the stair.
Mewks sat down at the foot of it, out of sight. It was a great four-post-bed, with curtains. "I'm glad you're come," he said, with a feeble grin, all he had for a smile. "I want to have a little talk with you. But I can't while that brute is sitting there. I have been suffering horribly. Look at me, and tell me if you think I am going to die not that I take your opinion for worth anything.
Toward evening, when she had just rendered him one of the many attentions he required, and which there was no one that day but herself to render, for he would scarcely allow Mewks to enter the room, he said to her: "Thank you; you are very good to me. I shall remember you. Not that I think I'm going to die just yet; I've often been as bad as this, and got quite well again.
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