9/41 She described to him gaily the struggle with their papa. "But, if you care for Besworth, you may calculate on it .-- Or is it only for our sakes, as I sometimes think ?--Besworth is won. Nothing but the cost of the place (to be considered you know!) could withhold it from us; and of that papa has not uttered a syllable, though he conjures up every possible objection to a change of abode, and will not (perhaps, poor dear, cannot) see what we intend doing in the world. Now, you know that rich men invariably make the question of the cost their first and loudest outcry. |