The Eye of Love
“In their Garden of Love Divine grew spiritual fruits only, and Mr Gibson (to say nothing of Martha) had a large corporeal appetite. Dolores’ small bank account was running out, the lease of the little house was running out, more uneasily, each day, Harry scanned the lists of Situations Vacant in every paper at the Free Library. It was well for all of them that Mr Joyce couldn’t endure to think of his friend starving.
For that was what he really feared it might come to—and Miranda was certain of... it. “Of course he’ll starve!” she told all her friends, with a humorous grimace; and indeed did her best to make this likely by a neat piece of dove-tailing in the eagerly-awaited revelations. Dadda had found out something really awful about poor Harry, whispered Miranda, to Rachel and Marion and Denise—who would undoubtedly pass the word back to their fathers; Miranda didn’t know exactly what—but hadn’t Dadda sacked him out of hand?—and then it was that she’d jumped at the chance of freeing herself from such an old stick-in-the-mud, whom she’d only accepted in the first place because Dadda was so set on it.MoreLess
For that was what he really feared it might come to—and Miranda was certain of... it. “Of course he’ll starve!” she told all her friends, with a humorous grimace; and indeed did her best to make this likely by a neat piece of dove-tailing in the eagerly-awaited revelations. Dadda had found out something really awful about poor Harry, whispered Miranda, to Rachel and Marion and Denise—who would undoubtedly pass the word back to their fathers; Miranda didn’t know exactly what—but hadn’t Dadda sacked him out of hand?—and then it was that she’d jumped at the chance of freeing herself from such an old stick-in-the-mud, whom she’d only accepted in the first place because Dadda was so set on it.MoreLess
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