? ? ? ? " ' "Ah, my boy," said he, "it is all very well to talk, but you don't know how I am placed. But you shall know, Victor. I'll see that you shall know, come what may. You wouldn't believe harm of your poor old father, would you, lad?" He was very much moved and shut himself up in the study all day, where I could see through the window that he was writing busily.
? ? ? ? " 'That evening there came what seemed to me to be a grand release, for Hudson told us that he was going to leave us. He walked into the dining-room as we sat after dinner and announced his intention in the thick voice of a half-drunken man.
? ? ? ? " ' "I've had enough of Norfolk," said he. "I'll run down to Mr. Beddoes in Hampshire. He'll be as glad to see me as you were, I daresay."
? ? ? ? " ' "You're not going away in an unkind spirit, Hudson, I hope," said my father with a tameness which made my blood boil.
? ? ? ? " ' "I've not had my 'pology," said he sulkily, glancing in my direction.
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