![]() ![]() It was all in vain that she was told that the room she had been in all day was at her service she did not say a word, but she was not going to bed that night of all nights in the year, when life or death hung trembling in the balance. She began to hope, and to long for the morning when hope might have become certainty. Morgan gave her when she found the buttered toast untouched toast on which she had herself desired that the butter might not be spared, did Ruth more good than the tea. But the heartiness with which the kind rosy waiter pressed her to eat, and the scolding Mrs. They brought her tea, which was comfortable, according to the idea of comfort prevalent in that rude hospitable place there was plenty to eat too much indeed, for it revolted the appetite it was intended to provoke. ![]() Indeed, and the girls are very careless." She rang the bell with energy, and seconded her pull by going to the door and shouting out sharp directions, in Welsh, to Nest and Gwen, and three or four other rough, kind, slatternly servants. Young woman, if you have any propriety or decency left, I trust that you will not dare to force yourself into his room." Bellingham could have been guilty of the illbreeding of not answering a question, it was now and for a moment she was tempted to pass on in silence. ![]() This was the girl, then, whose profligacy had led her son astray had raised up barriers in the way of her favourite scheme of his marriage with Miss Duncombe nay, this was the real cause of his illness, his mortal danger at this present time, and of her bitter, keen anxiety. But her quick, proud mind understood it all in an instant. Bellingham was for a moment surprised at the white apparition which seemed to rise out of the ground. ![]()
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