John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

“SIR,

“Your 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.

“I am, sir,

“Yours, etc.,

“RICHARD BRITHWOOD.”

“Wonderful—wonderful!”

It was all I could say. That one bad man, for his own purposes, should influence another bad man to an act of justice—and that their double evil should be made to work out our good! Also, that this should come just in our time of need—when John’s strength seemed ready to fail.

“Oh John—John! now you need not work so hard!”

That was his wife’s 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 been—how terrible the responsibility—how sickening the fear.

“Thank God! In any case, you are quite safe now—you and the children!”

He sat down, very pale. His wife knelt beside him, and put her arms around his neck—I quietly went out of the room.

When I came in again, they were standing by the fire-side—303both 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 John’s habit of putting things in a comic light whenever he felt them keenly.

“Yes, he is a rich man now—mind you treat your brother with extra respect, Phineas.”

“And your sister too.

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