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I can't quite understand what induced him to come: his conduct was very strange, and yet there is something very amiable about him in the midst of his eccentricities." "What a horror he seems to have of wine and negus and suchlike things, mamma." "Yes; and I'm sure what he saw last night would not make him any fonder of them. Poor Mark Rothwell quite forgot himself.
These words, uttered in a tone of passionate bitterness, were spoken by Mr Rothwell to his son in the hall at "The Firs," as the young man was urging his father to grant him a considerable sum to pay some pressing debts. At the same moment Mr John Randolph came out of the drawing- room, and could not help overhearing what was being said.
Why can't they stay at home and knock one another's heads about in the nursery?" "Very aimiable of you I must say, my dears," drawls out Mrs Rothwell. "Come, you must exert yourselves, you know it only comes once a year." "Ay, once too often, mamma!" "I'm sure," cries little Alice, "I shall enjoy the party very much: it'll be jolly, as Mark says, only I wish I wasn't so tired just now: ah!
"I suppose he's at his old quarters the 'Angel. But I haven't seen him; neither had Rothwell we've both been too busy to call there. I expect he came on to the 'Angel' from Northborough yesterday." Jerramy opened the half-door, and going out to the end of the passage, looked up and down the street. "There's a taxi-cab coming round the corner now," he announced presently.
Mr Rothwell turned fiercely upon him: "What right have you, sir, to be intruding on my privacy?" he cried, nettled at his rebuke having been overheard by a stranger. "I am not conscious of being guilty of any intrusion," said the other quietly.
The young man's manner was puzzling to his pupils at both houses. With Mary Franklin his respectful manner was mingled with an almost tenderness, ever kept in check by a cautious self-restraint. What did it mean? It made her feel embarrassed and almost unhappy. She had no wish to entangle the young musician's affections, and indeed felt that her own were getting entangled with Mark Rothwell.
I like to see a person obliging from principle, and not merely from impulse: not merely when his being obliging is only another form of self-gratification." "But why should not Mark Rothwell be obliging on principle?" "Well, Mary, you know my views.
I'd left the little ones with a kind neighbour, so I went up to the house and asked to see the missus: she couldn't see me, but I begged hard; and they showed me up into the drawing-room. Mrs Rothwell was lying on a `sofy, and there was wine on a table close by, and the young ladies was all crowding round the fire, contradicting their mother, and quarrelling with one another. `Oh!
"Never do," said her visitor; "I'll find you and Sally work for the present, and try and think charitably of Mrs Rothwell; she may mean more kindly than she has spoken." "Mean kindly! Oh! Dear Mrs Franklin! The drink has washed out all kindness: there's ruin hanging over that house, not as I wishes it to them, but it is so.
I'd like to know which was the beast just now. Entertainment! Ay, very entertaining, such a sight to the devil and his angels. O miserable drink! Haven't you drowned souls enough yet?" Two days after this disgraceful exposure of himself, Mark Rothwell made an early call at "The Shrubbery."
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