19/23 She was the handsomest girl in Barchester, anyhow. Well, I didn't think to be talking of her again. Thorne, you cannot but expect that I shall go over and see Mary's child ?" "Now, Scatcherd, look here," and the doctor, coming away from the window, where he had been standing, sat himself down by the bedside, "you must not come over to Greshamsbury." "Oh! but I shall." "Listen to me, Scatcherd. I do not want to praise myself in any way; but when that girl was an infant, six months old, she was like to be a thorough obstacle to her mother's fortune in life. |