John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik Dinah Maria Mulock
Author:Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock [Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Historical
ISBN: 9781551115009
Amazon: 155111500X
Goodreads: 1892249
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 1856-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
âSIR,
âYour wife, Ursula Halifax, having some time since attained the age fixed by her late father as her majority, I will, within a month after date, pay over to your order all moneys, principal and interest, accruing to her, and hitherto left in my hands, as trustee, according to the will of the late Henry March, Esquire.
âI am, sir,
âYours, etc.,
âRICHARD BRITHWOOD.â
âWonderfulâwonderful!â
It was all I could say. That one bad man, for his own purposes, should influence another bad man to an act of justiceâand that their double evil should be made to work out our good! Also, that this should come just in our time of needâwhen Johnâs strength seemed ready to fail.
âOh JohnâJohn! now you need not work so hard!â
That was his wifeâs first cry, as she clung to him almost in tears.
He too was a good deal agitated. This sudden lifting of the burthen made him feel how heavy it had beenâhow terrible the responsibilityâhow sickening the fear.
âThank God! In any case, you are quite safe nowâyou and the children!â
He sat down, very pale. His wife knelt beside him, and put her arms around his neckâI quietly went out of the room.
When I came in again, they were standing by the fire-sideâ303both cheerful, as two people to whom had happened such unexpected good fortune might naturally be expected to appear. I offered my congratulations in rather a comical vein than otherwise; we all of us had caught Johnâs habit of putting things in a comic light whenever he felt them keenly.
âYes, he is a rich man nowâmind you treat your brother with extra respect, Phineas.â
âAnd your sister too.
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