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Updated: June 22, 2025
To have so good a servant so disgracefully dismissed, is very cruel: and I could not help saying that these methods might break my heart, but not any other way answer the end of the authors of my disgraces. Betty, with a very saucy fleer, said to Shorey, There would be a trial of skill about that she fancied. But I took no notice of it.
As to his behaviour at church, the Sunday before last, I lay no stress upon that, because I doubt there was too much outward pride in his intentional humility, or Shorey, who is not his enemy, could not have mistaken it. I do not think him so deeply learned in human nature, or in ethics, as some have thought him.
My brother happily was not. They all came home in disorder. Nor did the congregation mind any body but him; it being his first appearance there since the unhappy rencounter. What did the man come for, if he intended to look challenge and defiance, as Shorey says he did, and as others, it seems, thought he did, as well as she?
I stept down at my usual time, that it might not be known I had not been in bed; and gave directions in the family way. About eight o'clock, Shorey came to me from my mother with orders to attend her in her chamber.
My two uncles and my aunt Hervey are sent for, it seems, to be here in the morning to breakfast. I shall then, I suppose, know my doom. 'Tis past eleven, and I am ordered not to go to bed. This moment the keys of every thing are taken from me. It was proposed to send for me down: but my father said, he could not bear to look upon me. Strange alteration in a few weeks! Shorey was the messenger.
Grievously disordered they appear to be, as Hannah tells me. She believes something is resolved upon. What a cruel thing is suspense! I will ask leave to go to church this afternoon. I expect to be denied. But, if I do not ask, they may allege, that my not going is owing to myself. I desired to speak with Shorey. Shorey came.
Whether owing to her, or to my aunt, or to both, that a new trial was to be made upon me, I cannot tell, but this morning her Shorey delivered into my hand the following condescending letter.
My mother was angry enough without all that; and asked me to what purpose I came down, if I were still so intractable. She had hardly spoken the words, when Shorey came in to tell her, that Mr. Solmes was in the hall, and desired admittance. Ugly creature! What, at the close of day, quite dark, brought him hither?
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