Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. So then--It was Bridget Pope you were speaking of all the time, hey, continued the father. To be sure it was--what's the matter now? Why a a the fact is, brother--You are displeased, I see. Not at all--not in the least--no business of mine, brother George--none at all, if you like Bridget Pope as much as ever--child though she is--no business of mine brother Burroughs--I am sure of that. So am I--You may laugh brother B., you may laugh. So I shall brother P.--so I shall. O, the sick and sore jealousy of a father! Why--do you not know Matthew Paris--have I not given you the proof--that your Abigail is to me even as if she were my own child--the child of my own dear Sarah? And is not my feeling toward poor Bridget Pope that of one who foresees that her life is to be a life, perhaps of uninterrupted trial and sorrow, because of her extraordinary character. I do acknowledge to you that my heart grows heavy when I think of what she will have to endure, with her sensibility--poor child--she is not of the race about her--There now George--there it is again I That poor child has never been out of your head, I do believe, since you saw her jump into the sea after little Robert Eve leth; and if she were but six or eight years older, I am persuaded from what I now see, and from what I have seen before Matthew Paris! Forgive me George--forgive me--I have gone too far. You have gone too far. Will you not forgive me? I do--I do--I feel what you have said though; I feel it sharply--it was like an arrow, or a knife--Allow me to say--No, no--excuse me--I know what you would say. Her great resemblance to your wife, which everybody speaks of, and her beauty--No, no, Matthew, no, no....I cannot bear such talk. Ah George! Both my wives were very...