23/29 I wanted to baste her while she burned, or to tread her down while she was buried. Her husband and her young son were burnt, upon my evidence mostly, but this is the third time she has escaped me." "Patience, mother, patience, and I dare say that everything will come right in the end. You have bagged two of the family--Papa heretic and Young Hopeful. Really you should not grumble if the third takes a little hunting, or wonder that in the meanwhile you are not popular with Mama. You know the young woman whom it was necessary that I should humour yesterday. |