Her Faithful Knight — page 90: what you’re looking at

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86 Dorothy Visits Her Aunt. “Ah, a propos! Charity is what you came for,’ re- turned her aunt, getting angry, too. “Beggars, Doro- thy, must not be choosers of the words they receive with their gifts.” “T would rather we both should starve than that we should accept anything from you now,” retorted the younger woman, and without another word she had walked down the two flights of stairs and out at the front door of thirty-seven Belvidere Gardens in rather less time than it takes to relate it, leaving her great-aunt in a state of high indignation and considerable astonishment. To her credit, be it said, that after forty years of pam- pering and flattery, Mrs. Knight felt exceedingly uncom- fortable on the subject of her young relative, and not without a secret admiration for the girl who, while pos- sessing on her own confession less than three pounds in the world, could yet resent so fiercely any attack on her -sister’s good name from the woman whose help she came to crave. Within a very few minutes of Dorothy’s hasty depart- ure, one of Mrs. Knight’s servants was sent in search of her, with orders to bring her back immediately. His mistress meanwhile wrote out a check for fifty pounds, payable to Miss Dorothy Knight, which gift, however, was never destined to reach that young lady. The lazy and supercilious footman greatly resented being sent out on Sunday evening in chase after a shabbily-dressed young woman; he did not see her, nor did he try to do so, but he returned after half-an-hour’s pleasant stroll in the. park to report that she had completely disappeared. Mrs. Knight for once failed to enjoy her dinner, and on many subsequent days her thoughts flew to the two sisters, leading their struggling, starving existence in the little cottage near Hammersmith, in which unfashionable neighborhood Mrs. Knight’s fat carriage horses were fre- Eomichbooksico