She
puts into her pocket more than a third of the profits, in defiance of my
most arduous exertions to prevent her. And this at my age! this after my
long and successful career as a moral agriculturist! Marks of admiration
are very little things; but they express my feelings, and I put them in
freely.
VIII.
_Chronicle for April and May._
We have visited seven more large towns, and are now at Birmingham.
Consulting my books, I find that Miss Vanstone has realized by the
Entertainment, up to this time, the enormous sum of nearly four hundred
pounds. It is quite possible that my own profits may reach one or two
miserable hundred more. But I was the architect of her fortunes--the
publisher, so to speak, of her book--and, if anything, I am underpaid.
I made the above discovery on the twenty-ninth of the month--anniversary
of the Restoration of my royal predecessor in the field of human
sympathies, Charles the Second. I had barely finished locking up my
dispatch-box, when the ungrateful girl, whose reputation I have made,
came into the room and told me in so many words that the business
connection between us was for the present at an end.
I attempt no description of my own sensations: I merely record facts.
Pages:
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410