[Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner]@TWC D-Link bookHills of the Shatemuc CHAPTER XVII 28/28
Mr.Haye wouldn't have done it once.
But that's the way he always comes round to people when they get up in the world." "This one hasn't got much up in the world yet." "He is going to, you know.
Mr.Herder says so; and President Darcy says there are not two such young men seen in half a century as he and his brother." Elizabeth laid down her book and looked over at her companion, with an eye the other just met and turned away from. "Rose, -- how _dare_ you talk to me so!" "So how ?" said the other, pouting and reddening, but without lifting her face from her work. "You know, -- about my father.
No matter what he does, if it were the worst thing in the world, your lips have no business to mention it to my ears." "I wasn't saying anything _bad_," said Rose. "Your notions of bad and good, and honourable and dishonourable, are very different from mine! If he did as you say, I should be bitterly ashamed." "I don't see why." "I will not have such things _spoken_ of to me, -- Rose, do you understand? What my father does, no human being has a right to comment upon to me; and none shall!" "You think you may talk as you like to _me_," said Rose, between pouting and crying.
"I was only laughing." "Laugh about something else." "I wish Winthrop Landholm had been here." "Why ?" "He'd have given you another speech about engineering." Elizabeth took her candle and book and marched out of the room..
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