The Price He Paid — page 60: what you’re looking at

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LIVING IN REBELLION. | 51 specting heaven knows what! In between these occupations he receives all sorts of people, listens to reports, issues orders. I really believe he gets through more work himself than all his clerks put together.” “Yes, he was always a restless creature,” assented the baroness. “My sister often assured me that it made her nervous even to think of the unceasing Se of activity in which her husband spent his ays.” Gabrielle leaned her head on her hand, and mused a little thoughtfully. “Mamma,” she soon began again, “your sister’s married life must have been avery dull and tire- some one.” “Tiresome? What makes you think so?” | “Well, I only mean by what I hear in the castle. My aunt lived inthe right wing, and my uncle in the left. Sometimes he would not go near her rooms for weeks, and she never went to his: He had his own carriages and servants, and she had hers. They each went and came as they liked, with oult giving each other a thought. It must have been a strange sort of life.” “Oh, you are quite mistaken,” replied her mother, who evidenly saw nothing very shocking in such a state of things. “It was a perfectly happy mar- riage.. My sister had never reason to complain of her husband, who fulfilled her every wish. She, fortunate being, was never subjected to the harsh words, to the scenes, which in later years, | had constantly to endure.” “Yes, you and papa were always quarreling, that is true,” said Gabrielle, naively. “ Uncle Arno never did that, [am sure; but he took no interest in his wife, though he can take an interest in everything else, evenin my schooling. It was very rude of him to say, a little while ago, in your presence, that he thought my education very deficient and neglected, and that it was easy to see at a glance I had always been left to maids and governesses.” “Tam, unfortunately, accustomed to such incon- siderate, unkind speeches from him,” declared the —— EOmichboo cS (E(0)