? ? ? ? 'I wonder, I do, at your making such ungrateful speeches,' sobbed Dora. 'When you know that the other day, when you said you would like a little bit of fish, I went out myself, miles and miles, and ordered it, to surprise you.'
? ? ? ? 'And it was very kind of you, my own darling,' said I. 'I felt it so much that I wouldn't on any account have even mentioned that you bought a Salmon - which was too much for two. Or that it cost one pound six - which was more than we can afford.'
? ? ? ? 'You enjoyed it very much,' sobbed Dora. 'And you said I was a Mouse.'
? ? ? ? 'And I'll say so again, my love,' I returned, 'a thousand times!'
? ? ? ? But I had wounded Dora's soft little heart, and she was not to be comforted. She was so pathetic in her sobbing and bewailing, that I felt as if I had said I don't know what to hurt her. I was obliged to hurry away; I was kept out late; and I felt all night such pangs of remorse as made me miserable. I had the conscience of an assassin, and was haunted by a vague sense of enormous wickedness.
? ? ? ? It was two or three hours past midnight when I got home.
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