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—

immediately taking the hint,

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

He had a son and a nominal daughter, it

“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.

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

I need not tell you this was my sister Rose. She is, I know, a comely matron still,

“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.

while Arthur screamed to the footman to let him out;