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    248 RETRIBUTION.

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    to be considered , so I answered , rather warmly , Well , you may not think it matters much , but I suppose the decision lies between

    those two only ; and it matters rather more what they think and was feel Step , than hen eciall what answered provoking your op with inion ( a I think or cool min imperturbable he e happen put it s on to be merel politeness . " y to provoke , which

    me , ) esp " Oh , decidedl y y ! but , I am _thinking of what is right , and wiseand desirable ; what my mother would approve , and what

    Charles , ' s best friends would desire . " 66 They desire he should be happy , I imagine , " was my reply .

    "Of course , " answered Stephen , unmoved ; " and , therefore , suade they desire d or caj that oled he into should doing make what a he suitable is sure match to repent , and hereafter not be per . " -

    "Why should he repent marrying Mildred O'Connor ? because she " is Not poor because ? " she is _poor" said he ; c < but , _il _^ _|^| ou X desire to

    , know my opinion , because she is stupid , underbred , unrefined , and in ect inferior to Charles . "

    " every I think resp you are very unjust , Stephen , " said I ; " unjust and unfair . Mildred is not as clever as Charles , but then she

    has far more common sense ; as to her not being refined , she is blunt and straightforward , but she always feels rightly and

    delicately . " "I am sorry I cannot agree with you , " -was the only reply but would be heardand went

    to Step tell hen him condescende how steadil d to make y and ; gentl I y Mildred had , led Charles I on to

    interest himself in the schools , had brought up again his old for boy him ish plan as Step of a hen reading had - done room but for quietl his tenant y influencing s , not doing him his to work do ii

    , for himself . If I had ever hesitated as to Mildred ' s worth , the sight of Charles ' s face , looking more from eager whole and more manly than in 1

    had ever seen it , as he rose up a morning spent copying and altering the old designs for the school-house which was to have been built six years ago , and had never seemed likely to be

    remembered till now , would have made me satisfied and content with his choice .

    I told all this to Stephen ; but I think what he noted in it was merely the extent of influence that Mildred had obtained over Charles ,

    and not whether it was good or beneficial . He did not condescend to argue with me , and after hearing what

    I had to say , and pausing a moment to see if I had done , he shrugged his shoulders and was turning from the library window where

    we both stood , when he was arrested by the sight of Charles and Mildred coining slowly down the avenue . I guessed that lie had

    been to fetch her to see a poor woman who was ill at one of the lodges , and that they had sauntered on till within sight of the

    house .

    They did not see us , but she turned to go ; and as Charles took

    248 Retribution.

    248 RETRIBUTION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/32/