[Through the Fray by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookThrough the Fray CHAPTER XI: THE NEW MACHINERY 25/27
I shall go away feeling quite easy about her.
I wish I could say as much about Charlie. He is not strong, like other boys, and feels unkindness very sharply. I can see him shrink and shiver when your husband speaks to him, and am afraid he will have a very bad time of it when I am gone." "I am sure, Ned, he will get on very well," Mrs.Mulready said.
"I have no doubt that when he gets rid of the example you set him--I don't want to begin to quarrel again--but of the example you set him of dislike and disrespect to Mr.Mulready, that he will soon be quite different. He will naturally turn to me again instead of looking to you for all his opinions, and things will go on smoothly and well." "I am sure I hope so, mother.
Perhaps I have done wrong in helping to set Charlie against Mulready.
Perhaps when I have gone, too, things will be easier for him.
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