ibsonhalf-mocking.
‘Unless we love some one very dearly indeed’ said Mollyin a
lowfirm tone.
‘Wellafter this tirade―really rather indelicateI must say―I
have done. I will neither help nor hinder any love-affairs of you
two young ladies. In my days we were glad of the advice of our
elders.’ And she left the room to put into fulfilment an idea which
had just struck her: to write a confidential letter to Mrs
Kirkpatrickgiving her her version of Cynthia’s ‘unfortunate
entanglement’ and ‘delicate sense of honour’ and hints of her
entire indifference to all the masculine portion of the worldMr
Henderson being dexterously excluded from the category.
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sigh of reliefas Mrs Gibson left the room; ‘how cross I do get since
I have been ill. But I could not bear her to speak as if papa
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grudged you anything.’
‘I am sure he does notMolly. You need not defend him on my
account. But I am sorry mamma still looks upon me as “an
encumbrance” as the advertisements in
The Times always call us
unfortunate children. But I have been an encumbrance to her all
my life. I am getting very much into despair yilai:
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