and his friend were ushered

 

and his friend were ushered

It was the last time, if you will remark, Edward. I am very sorry you have alluded to this: it shows how little you feel the wretched position in which your most reprehensible want of manliness Coach Outlet Store Online has placed you. When you can positively smile at the recollection that your mother was permitted to grossly insult the oldest friend you have in the world, and cause him to leave the house —your house—to which you had invited him! and that while you were by, and, like a whipped child, dared not to interfere 1 Coach Outlet Online God bless me, Edward Waymouth, what would your father have thought of such a thing I""Well, it is horrible, Fletcher! It is, indeed; but what can I do?" cried Waymouth, starting up to his feet, and pacing the room with an agitated manner—"What can I do? Sell Mittagarra?""No 1 I should not be driven to any such sacrifioe. I certainly should rather 'gird up my loins like a man,' and begin, although late in the day, to fight my own battles I""Oh, I can't 1" groaned Waymouth, despairingly. ?' Well, then, get some one to do it for you. Get a wife able for your mother. There are plenty of women would very Boon make her mind her own business, and that without much disturbance over it.""Oh, no, that won't do! Fortunately, I love no woman sufficiently well to make her my wife, and, if I did, I should be very sorry to take her to Mittagarra to lead such a life as she would be sure to lead.""Well, that is a humiliating confession, Edward Waymouth. You positively acknowledge your own incapacity to protect a woman, even if that woman was your beloved wife I Thank God, I never felt so weak in my life, However, I suppose you are right, and so, as next beat, I say get a determined housekeeper, and give her carte blanche to make your mother keep her own place.""Do you think really that such a woman could be found?""Certainly I do. Found readily; but; of course, you will have to lend your assistance so Coach Factory Outlet Online far as to prevent Mrs. Waymouth from getting your servants to turn out your housekeeper! Upon my word, Edward, I wonder you are not ashamed to permit yourself to be spoken to with justice in this manner.""I am," said Waymouth. "'Pon my honour I am, and indeed I will try and make a change.""And you will succeed if you are in earnest, as I have said to you, my dear fellow, over and over again. If it was upon you alone that Coach Outlet all the effects of your weak character was to fall, one would not care so much to try for an improvement; but you are a man of property, entirely independent of any control, but that which a sense of duty should hold over you. In such a position you are responsible for the happiness of many around you—a responsibility which you have hitherto entirely ignored. What sort of a life do your servants lead under such a state of things 1 and more, do you think, Edward, that it is for the moral benefit of Mrs. Waymouth herself that she is permitted to play the part of a tyrant and task-mistress over all around her with impunity?"Edward shook his head. "Well, never mind just now," added the kind hearted lawyer, as he perceived the depressing effect of his reproofs; "I will look out for such a person as will do what ought to be done. But, bless my heart, I think I have found the very lady already! and if you will come to me after four o'clock, we will call upon her."Edward Waymouth promised, and took his leave.The readers of this tale will guess that the lady to whom Mr. Fletcher alluded was Miss Hazlitt, and they will be right; she had arrived in Melbourne only the day previous, and her fixed object had been to call upon Mr. Fletcher, who had been an early friend of her mother's, and from whose experienced assistance she hoped for much in her attempt to establish herself in some little business, as she contemplated doing. So it was into the presence of Dorothea Hazlitt that the lawyer and his friend were ushered upon that afternoon when they presented themselves at the hotel where she was staying.Mr. Fletcher was a straightforward man; he did not use very much circumlocution in making the lady aware of the Btate of affairs, while Edward, poor fellow, Bat by, looking very " small" but very Berious.