Beautiful is the girl of twelve,—who is neither child nor woman, but something between both, something more exquisite than either! Such was the fairy creature presented to Thames Darrell, under the following circumstances. "I would treat him as you treated his father, Sir Rowland. “I have come for an explanation,” she said. "Sounds as if I had heard it, but I can't place it this minute. He was silent. "Ruth?" "Hoddy!" she cried. "In case he should consent—" "He never will," interrupted Winifred. " The air in the narrow street, which was not eight feet wide, swarmed with smells impossible to define; but all at once the pleasantly pungent odour of Chinese incense drifted across the girl's face, and gratefully she quickened her inhalations. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. You break into a gentleman’s residence —’ ‘I did not break in. “Upon my word,” he exclaimed, “this is most extraordinary.
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