"
"If any doubts are troubling you on that subject, sure I knew it! She
was so anxious to try the world, I thought I'd just let her take a few
knocks and see how she liked them."
"As if she'd ever taken anything but knocks all her life!" cried Wesley
Sinton. "Kate Comstock, you are a heartless, selfish woman. You've never
shown Elnora any real love in her life. If ever she finds out that thing
you'll lose her, and it will serve you right."
"She knows it now," said Mrs. Comstock icily, "and she'll be home
to-night just as usual."
"Well, you are a brave woman if you dared put a girl of Elnora's make
through what she suffered yesterday, and will suffer again to-day,
and let her know you did it on purpose. I admire your nerve. But I've
watched this since Elnora was born, and I got enough. Things have come
to a pass where they go better for her, or I interfere."
"As if you'd ever done anything but interfere all her life! Think I
haven't watched you? Think I, with my heart raw in my breast, and too
numb to resent it openly, haven't seen you and Mag Sinton trying to turn
Elnora against me day after day? When did you ever tell her what her
father meant to me? When did you ever try to make her see the wreck of
my life, and what I've suffered? No indeed! Always it's been poor little
abused Elnora, and cakes, kissing, extra clothes, and encouraging her
to run to you with a pitiful mouth every time I tried to make a woman of
her.
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