“Who are you?” She asked innocently. Melusine felt the
calloused hand grasp around hers. Tell me how you are earning your living
here, Anna—typewriting, or painting, or lady’s companion?”
“I think,” Anna said, “that the less you know about me the better. The road
which wound by Westbourne Green, gave him a full view of the hill of
Hampstead with its church, its crest of houses, and its villas peeping from out the
trees. Jonathan gave utterance to a low whistle. You
could walk the city streets and with every blink you could
take in a new sight of beauty so great that your heart
would weep for it. Yet you make our Bohemianism
seem like a vulgar thing. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. net
Title: The Ragged Edge
Author: Harold MacGrath
Release Date: April 13, 2005 [EBook #15614]
Language: English
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