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All her thought was how to get him away from the frightful place. Hester did her best to reassure her. She told her Corney was fast asleep and little the worse; did all she could to keep her quiet, and soothe her to sleep; and a little after midnight was successful. Then she lay down herself on the sofa beside her bed, sorely exhausted. In the gray of the morning Mr. Raymount woke.
Please tell me the two things you mean." "To make up a call, I think both impulse and possibility are wanted," replied Mrs. Raymount. "The first you know well; but have you sufficiently considered the second? One whose impulse or desire was continually thwarted could scarcely go on believing herself called. The half that lies in an open door is wanting.
Raymount would go without a new bonnet till an outcry arose in the family that its respectability was in danger, she could not offer two shillings a day to a sempstress who thought herself worth half-a-crown; she could not allow a dish to be set on her table which was not as likely to encourage hunger as allay it; neither because some richer neighbors gave so little, would she take to herself the spiritual fare provided in church without making a liberal acknowledgment in carnal things.
Raymount had found it, or chosen to imagine it necessary from the instinct, I believe to oppose inner with outer storm, to start pretty early for the county-town, on something he called business, and was not expected home before the next day.
There may be babies born in heaven, for any thing I know, but certain I am there can be none in the other place. This world of ours is the nursery of devils as well as of saints." "And what becomes of those that are neither?" asked Vavasor. "It were hard to say," replied Mr. Raymount with some seriousness. "A confoundedly peculiar family!" said Vavasor to himself.
Raymount sent to the station for his luggage, and showed him to a room. As major Marvel, for all the rebuffs he had met with, had not yet learned to entertain the smallest doubt as to his personal acceptability, so he was on his part most catholic in his receptivity. But there were persons whom from the first glance he disliked, and then his dislike was little short of loathing.
For a father not to forgive is in truth far worse than for a son to need forgiveness; and such a father will of course go from bad to worse as well as the son, except he repent. The shifty, ungenerous spirit of compromise awoke in Raymount. He would be very good, very gentle, very kind to every one else in the house!
"It's not," returned Amy, "that they watch every bit I put in my mouth I don't complain of that, for they're poor at least they're always saying so, and of course they want to make the most of me; but not to be trusted one moment out of their sight except they know exactly where I am to be always suspected, and followed and watched, and me working my hardest that's what drives me wild, Miss Raymount.
So no more at present, and I hope dear mis'ess it won't kill you to hear on it. O why did his father leave him alone in London, with none but an old woman like me, as he always did look down upon, to look after him! Your humble servant for twenty years to command, S. H." Mrs. Raymount had not read the half of this. It was enough to learn he had not been home for three nights. How is it?
Where was the use of quarrelling about a man he was never likely to set eyes on again? A day or two before the natural end of his visit, as Mrs. Raymount, Hester and he were sitting together in the old-fashioned garden, the letters were brought them one for Vavasor, with a great black seal. He read it through, and said quietly: "I am sorry I must leave you to-morrow.
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