[The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Virginians CHAPTER VI 1/17
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The Virginians begin to see the World. After the departure of her unfortunate spiritual adviser and chaplain, Madam Esmond and her son seemed to be quite reconciled: but although George never spoke of the quarrel with his mother, it must have weighed upon the boy's mind very painfully, for he had a fever soon after the last recounted domestic occurrences, during which illness his brain once or twice wandered, when he shrieked out, "Broken! Broken! It never, never can be mended!" to the silent terror of his mother, who sate watching the poor child as he tossed wakeful upon his midnight bed. His malady defied her skill, and increased in spite of all the nostrums which the good widow kept in her closet and administered so freely to her people.
She had to undergo another humiliation, and one day little Mr.Dempster beheld her at his door on horseback.
She had ridden through the snow on her pony, to implore him to give his aid to her poor boy.
"I shall bury my resentment, madam," said he, "as your ladyship buried your pride.
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