while Arthur screamed to the footman to let him out;

also to despatch a short note to my mother (excellent son that I was)

He had a son and a nominal daughter, it

all he told me about her was, that she had been greatly exhausted and worn by her unremitting exertions in behalf of that man who had been the scourge of her life, and had dragged her with him nearly to the portals of the grave—

“for so long as I discharge my functions of steward and housekeeper, so conscientiously and well, without pay and without thanks, you cannot afford to part with me.

deferring to his pleasure and judgment, even when I know the latter to be inferior to my own.

“You need not grudge him to me, Helen, for I love him more than ever you could do.” This put me beside myself. I took her hand and violently dashed it from me, with an expression of abhorrence and indignation that could not be suppressed. Startled, almost appalled, by this sudden outbreak, she recoiled in silence.

immediately taking the hint,

require but little attendance, and as she had nursed me and coveted to nurse my child, and was moreover so very trustworthy,