This was all the good I got by leaving you to the guidance of a handsome, good-natured fool like Mornington.' "'Mother, speak more respectfully of the dead,' said Rachel.

'He was _good_, at any rate, which we _are not_.

It was my intention to have changed the children, but God ordered it otherwise,' she continued, with a convulsive laugh.

'However, I have had my revenge, but it has cost me many a blighting thought.' "'I don't understand you,' said Dinah, drawing close up before us, and fixing a keen look of inquiry on her daughter.
"'Nor do I mean that you should,' coldly retorted Rachel.

'My secret is worth keeping.