[Bad Hugh by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookBad Hugh CHAPTER II 14/19
He would say that she was a friend whom he had known in New York, that her husband had deserted her, and in her distress she had come to him for aid. All this he explained to Adah, who assented tacitly, thinking within herself that she should not long remain at Spring Bank, a dependent upon one on whom she had no claim.
She was too weak now, however, to oppose him, and merely nodding to his suggestions laid her head upon the arm of the lounge with a low cry that she was sick and warm.
Stepping to the door Hugh turned the key, and summoning the group waiting anxiously in the adjoining room, bade them come at once, as Mrs.Hastings appeared to be fainting.
Great emphasis he laid upon the Mrs.and catching it up at once 'Lina repeated, "Mrs.Hastings! So am I just as much." "Ad," and the eyes which shone so softly on poor Adah flashed with gleams of fire as Hugh said to his sister, "not another word against that girl if you wish to remain here longer.
She has been unfortunate." "I guessed as much," sneeringly interrupted 'Lina. "Silence!" and Hugh's foot came down as it sometimes did when chiding a refractory negro.
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