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Two shining shrewd eyes looked at me from a mass of pillows, and I had a knowledge of an aged face, half smiling and yet satirical, even malignant. "And so this is the young fortune-hunter from Ireland," he said in a hoarse sick-man's voice. "The young fortune-hunter! Ha! With his worthless papers! Ha!" "Worthless?" cried I, starting. "Worthless!" cried the Earl vehemently.
And now what can I bring to her but grief and gray hairs? I am dependent upon her for my daily bread; I occupy all her time, either in nursing or sewing for me; I try her temper hourly with my sick-man's whims; and I doom her to a future of care and economy. Yet I believe in my soul that she blesses me every time she looks upon me! Thackeray says women like to be martyrized.
The only wonder is, that he could have followed this course of life for six years. I am astonished that it did not kill him sooner." "But death came at last in an appalling shape." "Yes; his forty-sixth birth day found him sitting at home in his arm-chair, with his friends around him. But the rare old wine, he always drank the best, touched not the sick-man's lips that night.
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