[Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookCatherine: A Story CHAPTER XI 12/26
"I've a mind, do you know, to call in all our money? It's you who've made every farthing of it, that's sure; and it's a matter of two thousand pound by this time.
Suppose we go into Warwickshire, Cat, and buy a farm, and live genteel.
Shouldn't you like to live a lady in your own county again? How they'd stare at Birmingham! hey, Cat ?" And with this Mr.Hayes made a motion as if he would seize his wife's hand, but she flung his back again. "Coward!" said she, "you want liquor to give you courage, and then you've only heart enough to strike women." "It was only in self-defence, my dear," said Hayes, whose courage had all gone.
"You tried, you know, to--to--" "To STAB you, and I wish I had!" said Mrs.Hayes, setting her teeth, and glaring at him like a demon; and so saying she sprung out of bed.
There was a great stain of blood on her pillow.
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