The Jilt: A NovelHarper & Brothers, 1877 - 116 pages |
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Page 108 - ... foaming and furious, and using such language, she was obliged to retire horror-stricken. About five in the morning he burst a blood-vessel in the brain, and at noon next day all his troubles were over. Mrs. Laxton mourned him, and buried him, and Greaves held aloof, not liking to go near her just now ; for he was too frank and simple to pretend he shared her grief. Yet he had sense enough to understand that, at such a time, a generous spirit remembers only a man's good- qualities ; and Laxton...
Page 118 - Soon after the pair had come to this little historical arrangement, they settled in London ; and Mrs. Greaves, being as beautiful as ever, and extremely rich, exerted her powers of pleasing, to advance her husband's interests. The consequence is he remains in the service, but is at present employed in the Education Department. She no longer says he must leave the service ; her complaint now is that she loves him too well to govern him as should be.
Page 116 - Take that into the cabin, dear,' said she. Then she took out some curious keys, out of her pocket, and opened a secret place, that nobody would have discovered. She showed him a great many bags of gold, and a pile of bank-notes. ' We are not so very poor, Arthur,' said she. ' You will have a little butter to your bread. You know I promised you should. And...
Page 49 - The commotion caused by this misfortune was scarcely over upon the quarter-deck, when an unexpected incident occurred, an act of direct insubordination. Mr. Castor had put on his uniform, and persuaded two poor fellows, an ignorant Lascar and a reckless Briton like himself, to go out in the boat to...