Well, let her,
I can manage without her, and our fifteen hundred pounds will last
awhile. After that is gone, trust me for more."
And Archie, who was too indolent to exert himself, did trust her, and,
parting with every vestige of manhood and manliness, did what she bade
him do and went where she bade him go; sometimes to the most expensive
hotels, where, while the money lasted they lived like princes, and when
it was gone, like rats in a hole; sometimes to Monte Carlo, where Daisy
was generally successful; sometimes to Hamburg and Baden Baden,
sometimes to Epsom, where she bet with Lord Hardy on the races, and got
her money, whether she lost or won, for the kind-hearted Ted could never
withstand her tears; and sometimes into the houses to which she managed
to get invited, and where she staid as long as possible, or until some
other house was open to her.
Meanwhile little Bessie grew into a child of wonderful loveliness.
Possessing her mother's beauty of feature and complexion and her
father's refinement of feeling, she added to them a truthful simplicity
and frank ingenuousness of manner which won all hearts to her.
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