age, and duly rewards her former exertions, I can turn to all that old narration and thoroughly enjoy it.’
‘I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather,’ replied Mr. Hale.
When Mr. Thornton rose up to go away, after shaking hands [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] with Mr. and Mrs. Hale, he made an advance to Margaret to wish her good-bye in a similar manner. It was the frank familiar custom of the place; but Margaret was not prepared for it. She simply bowed her farewell; although the instant she saw [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] the hand, half put out, quickly drawn back, she was sorry she had not been aware of the intention. Mr. Thornton, however, knew nothing of her sorrow, and, drawing himself up to his full height, walked off, muttering as he left the house —
‘A more proud, disagreeable girl I never saw. Even her great beauty is blotted out of one’s memory by her scornful ways.’
Chapter 11 First Impressions
‘There’s iron, they say, in all our blood,
And a grain or two perhaps is good;
But his, he makes me harshly feel,
Has got a little too much of steel.’
ANON.
‘Margaret!’ said Mr. Hale, as he returned from showing his guest downstairs; ‘I could not [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] help watching your face with some anxiety, when Mr. Thornton made his confession of having been a shop-boy. I knew it all along from Mr. Bell; so I was aware of what was coming; but I half expected to see you get up and leave the room.’
‘Oh, papa! you don’t mean that you thought me so silly? I really liked that account of himself better than anything else he said. Everything else revolted me, from its hardness; [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] but he spoke about himself so simply — with so little of the pretence that makes the vulgarity of shop-people, and with such tender respect for his mother, that I was less likely to leave the room then than when he was boasting about Milton, as if [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] there was not [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] such another [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] place in the world; or quietly professing to despise people for careless, wasteful improvidence, without ever seeming to think it his dut
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