Mrs. Kingsward gradually came to herself during this long speech, which no doubt was what Moulsey intended. But she said she felt a little weak, and that she would keep on the sofa until it was time to go to bed. The agitation she had gone through seemed to have passed from her mind. “Read me a little of that story,” she said, pointing to a book on the table. “We left off last night at a most interesting part. Read me the next chapter, Bee.”
Bee sat down beside her mother’s sofa and opened the book. It was not a book of a very exciting kind it may be supposed, when it was thus read a chapter at a time, without any one of the party opening it from evening to evening to see how things went on. But as it happened at this point of the story, the heroine had found out that her lover was not so blameless as she thought, and was making up her mind to have nothing to do with him. Bee began to read with an indignation beyond words for both hero and heroine, who were so pale, so colourless, beside her own story. To waste one’s time reading stuff like this, while the tide of one’s own passion was ten times stronger! She did not think very much of her mother’s faint. It was, no doubt, the too large fire, as Moulsey said.
END OF FIRST VOLUME.
TILLOTSON AND SON, PRINTERS, BOLTON.
| Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: |
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| ali the wohlgeborne=> all the wohlgeborne {pg 13} |
| goose’ to me,” said Bettty=> goose’ to me,” said Betty {pg 26} |
| Will gou go=> Will you go {pg 90} |
| consent had been been given=> consent had been given {pg 197} |
| down ths shovel hastily=> down the shovel hastily {pg 217} |
| her husband aud break up=> her husband and break up {pg 235} |