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Nay, grant the worst grant that Waife had suffered in repute as well as fortune grant that his character had been tarnished by some plausible circumstantial evidences which he could not explain away to the satisfaction of friends or the acquittal of a short-sighted world had there not been, were there not always, many innocent men similarly afflicted?
No colonels to scan him with martinet eyes, and hint how to pipeclay a tarnish! Waife's apprehensions gradually allayed and his confidence restored, one fine morning George took leave of his eccentric benefactor. Waife and Sophy stood gazing after him from their garden-gate, the cripple leaning lightly on the child's arm.
"No," said Waife, sighing; "the Spotted Boy is a handsome income; but let us only trust in Providence, and I should not wonder if our new acquisition proved a monstrous " "Monstrous!" "Piece of good fortune." The investment revealed. Gentleman Waife passed through a turnstile, down a narrow lane, and reached a solitary cottage.
And seeing the man daily at last in his own cottage, Sophy's health restored to her cheeks, smiles to her lip, and cheered at her light fancy-work beside her grandsire's elbow-chair, with fairy legends instilling perhaps golden truths, seeing Waife thus, the scholar mingled with gratitude a strange tenderness of respect.
Respect you! yes, because I have seen you happy in despite of men, and therefore I know that the cloud around you is not the frown of Heaven." "Oh," cried Waife, the tears rolling down his cheeks, "and not an hour ago I was jesting at human friendship, venting graceless spleen on my fellow-men! And now now ah, sir! Providence is so kind to me!
RUGGE. "So do I; that is partly what I came about. You are aware, I think, ma'am, that I engaged him and Juliet Araminta, that is, Sophy." LOSELY. "Sophy? engaged them, sir, how?" RUGGE. "Theatrical line, sir, Rugge's Exhibition; he was a great actor once, that fellow Waife." LOSELY. "Oh, actor! well, sir, go on." "But he became a wreck, a block of a man; lost an eye and his voice too.
George Morley, in repeating the conversation he had overheard between Waife and Jasper, had naturally, while clearing the father, somewhat softened the bravado and cynicism of the son's language, and more than somewhat brightened the touches of natural feeling by which the bravado and cynicism had been alternated.
"Then, as shells are not familiar to the youthful remembrances of your fellow-townsmen, possibly the lecturer may have found an audience rather select than numerous." WAIFE. "Highly creditable to the young ladies. But, pardon me, is your Athenaeum a Mechanics' institute?" SHOPMAN. "It was so called at first.
"Is it not, then, better to forbear asking who were your Sophy's parents, than to learn from inquiry that she is indeed your grandchild, and that her mother was Gabrielle Desmarets?" Waife uttered a cry like a shriek, and then sate voiceless and aghast. At last he exclaimed: "I am certain it is not so! Did you ever see that woman?"
"Oh, Jasper," cried Waife, now fairly placing his hand on Jasper's guilty head, and fixing his bright soft eye, swimming in tears, on that downcast gloomy face. "You repent! you repent! Yes; call back your BOYHOOD call it back! Let it stand before you, now, visible, palpable! Lo! I see it! Do not you? Fearless, joyous Image! Wild, lawless, wilful, as you say.
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