17/25 You would then have been my ward until you were of age. No worse would have befallen you. Bad enough perhaps!' 'And Eddy ?' 'He would have come into his partnership derived from his father, and into its arrears to his credit (if any), on attaining his majority, just as now.' Rosa, with her perplexed face and knitted brow, bit the corner of her attested copy, as she sat with her head on one side, looking abstractedly on the floor, and smoothing it with her foot. That it was strongly felt, and that there was a lively hope that it would prosper, there can be no doubt. When you were both children, you began to be accustomed to it, and it _has_ prospered. |