Octavia's Pride; or, The Missing Witness — page 101: what you’re looking at

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= OT LEER CERO TNE i He a An RT Ri aes comicboo vi Hee ai his er Pe ia pi Opies ee OCTAVIA’S PRIDE. 91 from the top of the stairs. ‘‘If you don’t want to be put in narrower quarters yet, you had best be quiet.” ‘7 wish to ask you by what authority you restrain the liberty of an innocent person. I can demand the protection of the governor. I have had no food to-day, and you have locked me here where I can obtain none,” was the reply, in quiet but resolute tones. , ‘‘She is a tartar,” muttered Mr. Aaron Morley, and went: down the stairs again. Jane guessed that he had left her to her fate, and began knocking again. She was not surprised, therefore, at sounds of his return. He unlocked the door, took a tray of food from the hands of the servant who had accompanied him, and brought 1t in and put it on oe table. ‘There is food,” he said. ‘*l would like to treat you well, if you would let me. Come, girl, be reasonable. This recipe is my right, and I ought to have it. It is ridiculous in you to refuse me. Should you attempt to make your own fortune out of it, I shall straightway bring a suit against you.” “<1 told you, sir, that Doctor Morley especially instructed me that no fortune should ever be made from it. I shal never use it, unless such an unlikely thing as becoming rich should allow me. Then I would come back to Sydney, make the cordial, and give it, as he had done, for the poor and suffering.” ‘Meantime, as you are not rich, the sick people must go without it,” said he, restraining for the time the expression of his anger. He saw the look of distress on her face, brought there by this new suggestion, and followed up the advantage. *‘ Yes; think of the poor creatures you condemn to suffer- ing, pessibly to death, by this foolish and obstinate we How dare you,be so cruel and inhuman.” _ Jane looked down, perplexed for a moment. cS fafa)