14/21 And now we can deliver them from great misery." "But my money ?" he interposed. "Will you make my life miserable, father? There never was a kinder man than he is; and I always thought him a good man till now." "A thief; worse than a common thief," said her father. "What will become of my little daughter when I am dead ?" Phebe made no answer except by tears. For a few minutes old Marlowe watched her bowed head and face hidden in her hands, till a gray hue came upon his withered face, and the angry gleam died away from his eyes. |