Capitolo 84
"There! That is done!" he said tersely. "So a lot for the Past! Now for
the Present! Acutely enough look at us and judge for you! A man and
girl,--not a very small also recommended,--offered guaranteed,--not
only 'As it is' in the honest work-sentence of the they frankly day,--offered
in an open it package,--accepted frankly,--if to all--'to Your his/her own risk.'
Not for an instant I try to deceive her/it around us! You look at us
from nearby, I ask, and--decides for you! I am forty-eight years old. ME
it is inexcusably bad-tempered,--a lot of anger express, and not, I fear, of
great mercy. I am sulky. I am selfish. I am more separately asocial.
But I am not, I believe, stingy,--neither never intentionally unfair. My
child is a cripple,--and equally irritable as me. Anybody but a
mercenary has ever faced her. And she shows him/it. We have lived alone
for six years. All of our suits and the most greater part of our ways, repair of need. ME
it is not anybody to mince the matters, Miss Malgregor neither it has Your training me,
has trust, it manufactured him one from who truths have to be veiled. I am a man with everybody
a needs,--mental man, moral, physical. My child is a child with all a
needs,--mental child, moral, physical. Our house of the life is full of
cobwebs. The rooms of the affection have been a lot closed from. There will be a
the great workloads to do! And it is not my intention, you see, that You
it would owe incomprendere in some conceivable way the exact nature or
the exact amount of job and worry it involved. I should not like her/it to
comes later to me with a whining, as they are other workers, and says 'Oh,
but I didn't know what you would be expected that I make _this!_ Oh, but I didn't have of it
idea you would like me to make _that!_ Ed I don't certainly see because You
you/he/she should wait him that I abandon only my afternoon of Thursday because You,
You, happened to fall down steps in the morning and to break Your
back!'"
Through the face of the Senior Surgeon a true smile suddenly illuminated.
"Really, Miss Malgregor", he affirmed, "I am afraid there is not a lot of