"
"Thank you, papa. I am so much obliged to you. You come back and
tell me that every word he says is to be taken for gospel, and that
you don't believe a word I have spoken. That is so kind of you! I
suppose he and you will be the best friends in the world now. But I
don't mean to let him off in that way. As you won't help me, I must
help myself."
"What did you expect me to do?"
"Never to leave him till you had forced him to keep his word. I
should have thought that you would have taken him by the throat in
such a cause. Any other father would have done so."
"You are an impudent, wicked girl, and I don't believe he was ever
engaged to you at all," said Lord Augustus as he took his leave.
"Now you have made your father your enemy," said the mother.
"Everybody is my enemy," said Arabella. "There are no such things
as love and friendship. Papa pretends that he does not believe me,
just because he wants to shirk the trouble. I suppose you'll say
you don't believe me next."
CHAPTER III
Mrs. Morton returns
A few days after that on which Lady Augustus and her daughter left
Bragton old Mrs. Morton returned to that place. She had gone away
in very bitterness of spirit against her grandson in the early days
of his illness. For some period antecedent to that there had been
causes for quarrelling.
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