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Updated: May 16, 2025
When the time comes for you to read my story, remember that I now, in preparation for the knowledge that will give you, ask you to pardon me then for all the pain it will cause you and your husband John being that husband. I have tried to do my best for you, Orbie: how much better I might have done had I had a clear conscience, God only knows.
"I have already begun to learn farming," I said. "You are the right sort, Orbie!" returned John. "I shall be glad to teach you anything I know." "If you will show me how a farmer keeps his books," I answered, "that I may understand the bailiff's, I shall be greatly obliged to you. As to the dairy, and poultry-yard, and that kind of thing, Martha can teach me as well as any."
"But did anybody ever hate the person that couldn't do without her, Orbie?" My name suggested by my uncle because my mother died at my birth was a curious one; I believe he made it himself. Belorba it was, and it means Fair Orphan. "I don't know, Martha," I replied. "Well, you watch and see!" she returned.
"My dear," said Martha, "which of us two ought to be the better nurse? You never saw your uncle ill; I've nursed him at death's door!" "Then you don't think he is angry with me, Martha?" I said, humbled before myself. "Was he ever angry with you, Orbie? What is there to be angry about? I never saw him even displeased with you!"
"Here, Orbie!" cried John; "help me to bundle him out before he comes to himself Take what you would have!" he said, as between us we shoved him out on the gravel. I fetched smelling-salts and brandy, and everything I could think of fetched Martha too, and between us we got her on the sofa, but lady Cairnedge lay motionless. She breathed indeed, but did not open her eyes.
His lamp and matches stood ready on his table: it was my part to see they were there. With a sigh, which seemed to seek me in the darkness and find me, he came forward through it. I caught him round the legs, and clung to him. He gave a great gasp and a smothered cry, staggered, and nearly fell. "My God!" he murmured. "Uncle! uncle!" I cried, in greater terror than he; "it's only Orbie!
What on earth makes you say such a wicked thing, Orbie?" she answered. "Hate 'em, the poor dears! I love 'em! What did you ever see to make you think I hated your uncle now?" "Oh! of course! uncle!" I returned; for my uncle was all the world to me. "Nobody could hate uncle!" "She'd be a bad woman, anyhow, that did!" rejoined Martha.
Besides, I will tell her that, when my time comes, if I find anything amiss with her accounts, I will give her no quarter. But, Orbie," he continued, "as I will not threaten what I may not be able to perform, you must promise not to prevent me from carrying it out." "I promise," I said, "that, if it be necessary for your truth, I will marry you at once.
What comes of me, I don't care, so long as I do my work, and don't keep him waiting that made me for it. You may think it a small thing to make a man happy! I don't. God thought him worth making, and he wouldn't be if he was miserable. I've seen one woman make ten men unhappy! I know my calling, Orbie. Nothing would make me marry one of them, poor things!"
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