Afterwards

will not weary, being alone for two hours?" and Mrs. Marsden, in charming

eyes. "You told me yesterday, but I forget; this illness has

y homes for the working men," quoting freely from an eloquent woman orator, "and the women must be elevated; so

my eyes closed. Tell me all about your s

s and... all kinds of things working men like. Then in the evening the wives will be able to talk with the

r an instant "And where do you meet to-day?

town house, and Lady Helen wrote an urgent note, Insisting that I should come, e

of trouble about founding the Union, so I think it would hardly do for me

urn. Can you spare just ten minutes to sit beside me? There is something I have been want

wondering, and her h

it at times before, but I was a coward and put the thought away. It seemed curious that no one came to spend an hour with me, a

n't blame any person; that would be very wrong. People might have be

ared about the subjects that interested me. Beatrice... I wish now you had told me how I bored our

a very tiresome fellow," and Marsden made some poor attempt at a smile. "Had

o ask your pardon for... all that martyrdom, and... to t

aybe I could not tell you, so let me explain everything

e so much as it did, and I wished to make it up to you, and now you can have your six hundred a year as b

'll lie here digesting the Reformation, you know," and he smiled, better this time,

he was horrified to find her patient alone, and in

ent... her away knowing the end was near..

andy, and he became s

o see death. My manner has been always so wearisome... I hoped that...

It's a little lonely... I am not afraid... a wa

had been with his living; very shortly afterward