She was glad when he went on: “I want to be your city of refuge from every sort of bother. Three times he uttered a phrase: "A djinn in a blue-serge coat!" And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in damnation. When next he asked for her, some twelve hours later, he was told that Mademoiselle had left. ‘The sisters here will not save you. ‘Shocked you, have I? We weren’t mealy-mouthed in my day, my boy. ‘I know, Melusine. I declare I'm almost afraid to go to the door. ” She hesitated. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. Her sleepless night had left her languid but not stupefied, and for an hour or so the work distracted her altogether from her troubles.
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