"Shall you stay here?" he asked, and Hannah replied:
"I don't know yet what I shall do, I shall let your father decide for
me."
"You might live with us in Boston," Grey said. "That would be jolly for
me; but I don't know how you and mother would hitch together, you are so
unlike. I wish I was big, and married, and then I know just where you
would go. But father will arrange it, I am sure."
And three weeks later, when Burton came up from Boston after his son, he
did arrange it for her.
"It is of no use," he said to her. "I have tried meeting and mingling
with my friends, and I feel as if they saw on my face what is always in
my mind, and if I stay in Boston I shall some day scream out to the
public that my father was a murderer. I could not help it, and I can
understand now how Lucy was wrought upon to do what she did in church
when they thought her crazy. I shall be crazy, too, if I stay here, and
I am going away. Geraldine likes Europe, and so do I; and as I can leave
my business as well as not, I shall shut up my house, and go abroad
until I feel that I can look my fellowmen in the face.
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