[Sylvia’s Lovers Vol. III by Elizabeth Gaskell]@TWC D-Link bookSylvia’s Lovers Vol. III CHAPTER XXXVI 7/23
Thee and him had words about it, and thou telled him thy mind, thou said ?' 'Yes,' said Sylvia, not moving.
'I'm afeared lest mother knows what I said to him, there, where she's gone to--I am-' the tears filled her shut eyes, and came softly overflowing down her cheeks; 'and yet it were true, what I said, I cannot forgive him; he's just spoilt my life, and I'm not one-and-twenty yet, and he knowed how wretched, how very wretched, I were.
A word fra' him would ha' mended it a'; and Charley had bid him speak the word, and give me his faithful love, and Philip saw my heart ache day after day, and niver let on as him I was mourning for was alive, and had sent me word as he'd keep true to me, as I were to do to him.' 'A wish a'd been theere; a'd ha' felled him to t' ground,' said Kester, clenching his stiff, hard hand with indignation. Sylvia was silent again: pale and weary she sate, her eyes still shut. Then she said, 'Yet he were so good to mother; and mother loved him so.
Oh, Kester!' lifting herself up, opening her great wistful eyes, 'it's well for folks as can die; they're spared a deal o' misery.' 'Ay!' said he.
'But there's folk as one 'ud like to keep fra' shirkin' their misery.
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