12/19 First it's one complaint that's brought to the house, of things going wrong, and then it's another complaint--and the women servants, they have not the sense to keep it from her. My wife can't keep her tongue still upon it, and can't see that the rest do. Might I ask how her ladyship is to-day, sir ?" "Not any better, Tynn. Tell Mrs.Verner I will be with her almost immediately." Lionel lost little time in going to Vender's Pride. Turned from it as he had been, smarting under the injustice and the pain, many a one would have haughtily refused to re-enter it, whatever might have been the emergency. |