Part 14 (1/2)
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CHAPTER EIGHT
KITTY CHRISTMAS SITS UP
”My dear Laura,” said Uncle Josiah that sae me; Lindon's welfare is as dear to me as that of my little Kitty”
”But you seemed to be so hard and stern with hi at it, my dear I may have been stern, but no more so than the matter warranted No, my dear sister, can you not see that I mean all this as a lesson for Lindon? You kno discontented he has been with his lot, like e very well as to whether they are well off”
”Yes, he has been unsettled lately”
”Exactly, and this is due to his connection with that ne'er-do-weel scoundrel, for who
Lindon has begged the ed frolect”
”I did not know this,” said Mrs Lavington ”No, I do not bring all my business troubles home I consented because I wished Lindon to realise for himself the kind of man whose cause he advocated; but I never expected that it would be brought home to him so severely as this”
”Then indeed, Josiah, you do not think Lindon guilty?”
”Bah! Of course not, you foolish little woentlerade hi proud and obstinate and stubborn
Guilty of neglecting his work to listen to that idle scoundrel's ro”
”Young? Old enough to know better”
”But if you could bring it hoently”
”I think the present way is an ad the boy his folly The bird who kept co, innocent as he was I want Lindon to see how very near he has been to having his neck wrung through keeping company with a jackda, rasp the case at once, and Master Lindon will receive a severe ad hiain”
”You cannot tell how happy you have ton, as she wept silently
”Well,” said Uncle Josiah, ”I want to make you happy, you poor ti for the best”
”And you will not be so stern with hihts will illuht by row up into a straightforward Englishman, proud of his name There, can I saythat you will think of Lindon as a high-spirited boy, who, though he does not always do as you wish, is still extremely sensitive”
”Proud and stubborn, eh, Laura?”