“And aren’t there fees to pay at the Imperial College?” her aunt was saying—a disagreeable question. II. Kneebone cordially on the shoulder, and began to laugh as heartily as any of them. “It’s—private. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me out of that. The assemblage was for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was exhibited. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the fate to which I consigned his father. “I’m only arguing against your position of what a woman should be, and trying to get it clear in my own mind. You see, I have had to look after myself so long that I have developed a terrible bump of independence. She walked straight across to the wardrobe and opened it. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. "The only disguise I ever put on is a dress-suit, and I look as natural as a pig at a Mahomedan dinner. When he left these premises, three years ago, I took them from him; or rather—to deal frankly with you,—he placed me in them rent-free, for, I'm not ashamed to confess it, I've had losses, and heavy ones; and, if it hadn't been for him, I don't know where I should have been. I’ll give you an uncrossed check, and then you can get it at the bank here, quite close by.
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