Shaw, who I presume is your lawyer. When I
received it I had not as yet seen mamma. I now understand that you
and she between you have determined that I should be compensated by
a sum of money for the injury you have done me! I scorn your money.
I cannot think where you found the audacity to make such a
proposal, or how you have taught yourself to imagine that I should
listen to it. As to mamma, she was not commissioned to act for me,
and I have nothing to do with anything she may have said. I can
hardly believe that she should have agreed to such a proposal. It
was very little like a gentleman in you to offer it.
Why did you offer it? You would not have proposed to give me a
large sum of money like that without some reason. I have been
shocked to hear that you have denied that you ever engaged yourself
to me. You know that you were engaged to me. It would have been
more honest and more manly if you had declared at once that you
repented of your engagement. But the truth is that till I see you
myself and hear what you have to say out of your own mouth I cannot
believe what other people tell me. I must ask you to name some
place where we can meet. As for this offer of money, it goes for
nothing. You must have known that I would not take it.
Arabella.
It was now just the end of February, and the visit of the Trefoil
ladies to the Connop Greens had to come to an end.
Pages:
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637