Part 18 (1/2)
”Now!” exclaiested the tranquil Margaret, ”unless you wish Selina to hear” She pointed to the door ajar ”She's sewing in there”
”Send the woaret merely closed the door ”Well, Grandmother?”
”Sit at this desk,” ordered the old lady, pointing with the ebony staff, ”and write a note to that ht it over and have decided it is quite io to New York with e instead ”I'll do neither,” said she
The old lady waved the end of her staff in a gesture of lofty disdain
”As you please But, if you do not, your allowance is withdrawn”
”Certainly,” said Margaret ”I assuues of flame ”And how do you expect to live?” she inquired
”That is OUR affair,” replied the girl ”You say you are done with aret had said, because she was not afraid of her grandmother that that formidable old lady respected her; and as she was one of those who can give affection only where they give respect, she loved Margaret--loved her with jealous and carping tenacity The girl's words of finalitysoul shi+ver in a sudden dreary blast of loneliness, that ic of all the storer of love with the beloved that she cried, ”How DARE you engage yourself to such a person!”
”You served notice on irl, her own tone much modified ”He was the chance that offered”
”The chance!” Madam Bowker smiled with caustic scorn, ”He's not a chance”
”You orderedyour promise But I expected it”
”My promise? What do you mean?”
”You told e
You even hinted you'd increase it”
”But this is no e I should consider a connection between such a ht as well run aith a coachman I have kno coacharet laughed cheerfully ”He isn't what you'd call polished, is he?”
Her grandaret,” she finally said, ”this is soe else”
”I refused Grant Arkwright just before you cainal plan was to trap Grant byBut I abandoned it”
”And why?”
”A remnant of decency”
”I doubt it,” said the old lady