It sickens me to think of it.
"I coaxed and comforted the miserable old creature till the tears
stood in his eyes, and he quite blushed with pleasure. He
undertakes to look after the Pedgifts with the utmost alacrity.
Pedgift the elder he described, when once roused, as the most
obstinate man living; nothing will induce him to give way,
unless Armadale gives way also on his side. Pedgift the younger
is much the more likely of the two to make attempts at a
reconciliation. Such, at least, is Bashwood's opinion. It is of
very little consequence now what happens either way. The only
important thing is to tie my elderly admirer safely again to my
apron-string. And this is done.
"The post is late this morning. It has only just come in, and has
brought me a letter from Midwinter.
"It is a charming letter; it flatters me and flutters me as if I
was a young girl again. No reproaches for my never having written
to him; no hateful hurrying of me, in plain words, to marry him.
He only writes to tell me a piece of news. He has obtained,
through his lawyers, a prospect of being employed as occasional
correspondent to a newspaper which is about to be started in
London.
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