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Mr. Rushton's hand fell coldly to his side, and regarding the Squire for a moment with what seemed an expression of contemptuous anger, he said, frowning, until his shaggy, grey eye-brows met together almost: "Early! I suppose I am to take up the whole forenoon the most valuable part of the day jogging over the country to examine title-deeds and accounts?
"What a lovely morning!" said Verty, "and look at Cloud, ma mere! he seems to know it's fall. Then there's Wolf, who can't understand what I told him about Mr. Rushton's not liking so many dogs see how sorry he is." "The gun makes him so," said the old woman; "he thinks my boy is going a hunting." "Maybe I shall who knows?" Verty said. "If I see a deer upon my way, good-bye to the law work!"
This last sentence was an echo from one of Mrs. Rushton's silly speeches. When people would ask her about Hetty's education, she was wont to declare that the child was prettier and pleasanter without it. Phyllis, listening, merely curled her lip, and bent lower in silence over her book. Nell remained looking at Hetty with a wondering expression in her eyes.
The owner of the house was present and asked for Rushton's bill, for which he at once gave them a cheque and Rushton and Misery almost grovelled and wallowed on the ground before him.
Rushton for the child whom she had taken into her home, petted and indulged, and accustomed to every luxury. The relations of Mrs. Rushton's late husband, who lived at a great distance and had not been on intimate terms with her, were not much impressed by the lady's carelessness of Hetty. But Mr. Enderby, who knew all the circumstances, felt that a wrong had been done.
To restore the money would be ruin. He had entered into the path of dishonesty, and he was forced to keep on in it. Mr. Paine called at Mrs. Rushton's cottage, and communicated the particulars of his interview with the superintendent. "It is evident," he said, "that Mr.
Crass and Slyme worked and talked in this manner till ten o'clock, and then they extinguished the fire by throwing some water on it put out the gas and locked up the shop and the yard, dropping the key of the latter into the letter-box at Rushton's office on their way home. In this way they worked at the blinds nearly every night for three weeks.
You must beg Mr. Rushton's pardon for speaking to him so. But, indeed, what he says is quite true; it is no one's duty but mine. My husband will not interfere with what he knows I must do," she said, with a little chill of apprehension. Would he indeed be so considerate for her? It made her heart sick to think that she was not on this point quite certain about Sir Tom.
Rushton's opposition was not likely to be of long continuance; and that as to Mademoiselle de Tourville's somewhat discouraging expression, such sentences from the lips of ladies "That would be wooed, and not unsought be won" were seldom, if ever, I had understood, to be taken in a literal and positive sense. Under this mild and soothing treatment, Mr.
Rushton, and she never condescended to answer them. The suggestion that she had incurred a great responsibility by adopting Hetty was highly disagreeable to her. It is hard to say how long this state of things might have gone on had not Mrs. Rushton's health become delicate. She suddenly found herself unable to enjoy the gay life which was so much to her natural taste.
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