He stepped out, and she
went up to the window that looks towards the garden, and said, Mean fool
that I am, to follow you up and down the house in this manner, though I
am shunned and avoided by you! You a brother!--You a barbarian! Is it
possible we could be born of one mother?
Why, said he, do you charge me with a conduct to you, that you bring upon
yourself?--Is it not surprising that you should take the liberty with me,
that the dear mother you have named never gave you an example for to any
of her relations?--Was it not sufficient, that I was insolently taken to
task by you in your letters, but my retirements must be invaded? My
house insulted? And, if I have one person dearer to me than another,
that that person must be singled out for an object of your violence?
Ay, said she, that one person is the thing!--But though I came with a
resolution to be temperate, and to expostulate with you on your avoiding
me so unkindly, yet cannot I have patience to look upon that bed in which
I was born, and to be made the guilty scene of your wickedness with such
a----
Hush! said he, I charge you! call not the dear girl by any name unworthy
of her. You know not, as I told you, her excellence; and I desire you'll
not repeat the freedoms you have taken below.
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