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I am
ashamed of myself, and of you, too, and I am going to stop it, and take
you home, and be master of my own house, and if we cannot live on our
small income, you can take up your dead mother's trade and make dresses,
and, by Jove, I'll help you, too! I'll keep the books, and--and--"
Here he would stop, not knowing exactly what else he would do, for work
was something to which he did not take kindly.
As the chair never offered any remonstrance, no matter how savage he
was, he usually felt better, and respected himself more after an attack
upon it, and there the battle ended, for he had not the courage to deal
thus with his wife, who had ruled him too long to yield her scepter
now.
Such was the condition of things between this ill-assorted pair when we
find them at Penrhyn Park, which so fully accorded with Daisy's tastes
that she at once determined to stay longer than a month, even if she
were not invited to extend her visit. She had been at the park a week or
more, enjoying all the _eclat_ of the favored guest, for Mrs.


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