on’s name before I came to Milton. But since I have come here, I have heard enough to make me respect and admire him, and to feel how much justice and truth there is in what you have said of him.’
‘Who spoke to you of him?’ asked Mrs. Thornton, Dame Tampa Bay Lightning a little mollified, yet jealous lest any one else’s words should not have done him full justice. Margaret hesitated before she replied. She did not like this authoritative questioning. Mr. Hale came Los Angeles Kings Drakter in, as he thought, to the rescue.
‘It was what Mr. Thornton said himself, that made us know the kind of man he was. Was it not, Margaret?’
Mrs. Thornton drew herself up, and said —
‘My son is not the one to tell of his own doings. May I again ask you, Miss Hale, from whose account you formed your favourable opinion of him? A mother is curious and Seattle Seahawks greedy Usa Drakt Barn of commendation of her children, you know.’
Margaret replied, ‘It was as much from what Mr. Thornton withheld of that which we had been told of his previous life by Mr. Bell — it was more that than what he said, that made us all feel what reason you have to be proud of him.’
‘Mr. Bell! What can he know of John? He, living a lazy New York Rangers Barn life in a drowsy college. But I’m obliged to you, Miss Hale. Many a missy young lady would have shrunk from giving an old woman the pleasure of hearing that her son was well spoken of.’
‘Why?’ asked Margaret, looking straight at Mrs. Thornton, in bewilderment.
‘Why! because I suppose they might have consciences that told them how surely they were making the old mother into an advocate for them, in case they had any plans on the son’s heart.’
She smiled a grim smile, for she had been pleased by Margaret’s frankness; and perhaps Scarpe Nike Air Zoom Uomo she felt that she had been asking questions too much as if she had a right to catechise. Margaret laughed outright at the notion presented to her; laughed so merrily that it grated on Mrs. Thornton’s ear, as if the words Maillot Tigres UANL Pas CHer that called forth that laugh, must have been utterly and entirely ludicrous. Margaret stop |
