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Age has left me in full possession of those powers of invention which used to amaze your poor father. He wondered how it was that I never wrote a novel. Mr. Presty's appreciation of my intellect was equally sincere; but he took a different view.
Upon my word, Catherine, I am ashamed of you. Have you no principles?" She really meant it! The purely selfish considerations which she urged on her daughter were so many undeniable virtues in Mrs. Presty's estimation. She took the highest moral ground, and stood up and crowed on it, with a pride in her own principles which the Primate of all England might have envied.
Presty! Randal took his own way the way into the garden. His silence and his determination to join his sister-in-law roused Mrs. Presty's ready suspicions; she concluded that he was bent on making mischief between her daughter and herself. The one thing to do in this case was to follow him instantly.
On second thoughts, however, he had returned, in the hope "In the hope," Herbert interposed, "of seeing Mrs. Presty's daughter?" "That was one of my motives," Bennydeck answered. "Is it indiscreet to inquire what the other motive was?" "Not at all. I heard a stranger's voice, speaking in a tone which, to say the least of it, is not customary in a lady's room and I thought "
Give me the railway guide, and I'll tell you when he will be here tomorrow. You may trust me, Catherine, to make no mistakes. Mr. Presty's wonderful knowledge of figures has been of the greatest use to me in later life. Thanks to his instructions, I am the only person in the house who can grapple with the intricacies of our railway system. Your poor father, Mr.
Presty's face assumed an expression of innocent amazement, which would have produced a round of applause on the stage. "What have I said to make you angry?" she inquired. "Surely, my dear, you and your husband are extraordinary people." "Do you mean to tell me, mamma, that you have said to Herbert what you said just now to me?" "Certainly. I mentioned it to Herbert in the course of the evening.
He staggered back with a livid change in his face startling to see. The mischief done by Mrs. Presty's sense of injury had led already to serious results. If the thought in Linley, at that moment, had shaped itself into words, he would have said, "And Catherine never told me of it!"
I ask you again you who have been listening to her what does she mean?" Mrs. Presty's sense of her own importance refused to submit to being passed over in this way. "However insolently you may behave, Catherine, you will not succeed in provoking me. Your mother is bound to open your eyes to the truth. You have a rival in your husband's affections; and that rival is your governess.
You might help me to tell him the truth." "What!!!" That exclamation of horror and astonishment was loud enough to have been heard in the garden. If Mrs. Presty's hair had been all her own, it must have been hair that stood on end. Catherine quietly rose. "We won't discuss it," she said, with resignation. "I knew you would refuse me." She approached the door.
Your husband's infidelity had shaken his hold on your respect for him and your sympathy with him, and had so left you without your natural safeguard against Mrs. Presty's sophistical reasoning and bad example. But for that wrong-doing, there is a remedy left. Enlighten your child as you have enlightened me; and then I have no personal motive for pleading Mr.
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