A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Published: 2001-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

“Papa, what is it?” Ellinor cried, clasping her hands together, as her father sat silent, vacantly gazing into the fire, after finishing the note.

“I don’t know!” said he, looking up at her piteously; “it’s the world, I think. Everything goes wrong with me and mine: it went wrong before THAT night—so it can’t be that, can it, Ellinor?”

“Oh, papa!” said she, kneeling down by him, her face hidden on his breast.

He put one arm languidly round her. “I used to read of Orestes and the Furies at Eton when I was a boy, and I thought it was all a heathen fiction. Poor little motherless girl!” said he, laying his other hand on her head, with the caressing gesture he had been accustomed to use when she had been a little child. “Did you love him so very dearly, Nelly?” he whispered, his cheek against her: “for somehow of late he has not seemed to me good enough for thee. He has got an inkling that something has gone wrong, and he was very inquisitive—I may say he questioned me in a relentless kind of way.”

“Oh, papa, it was my doing, I’m afraid. I said something long ago about possible disgrace.”

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