Farquhar for getting him out of the partnership in such
a summary way. I can't get over it, even though he has offered to
send Leonard to school. And here he's reigning lord-paramount at
the office! As if you, Thurstan, weren't as well able to teach
him as any schoolmaster in England! But I should not mind that
affront, if I were not sorry to think of Dick (though I never
could abide him) labouring away in Glasgow for a petty salary of
nobody knows how little, while Mr. Farquhar is taking halves,
instead of thirds, of the profits here!"
But her brother could not tell her--and even Jemima did not know
till long afterwards--that the portion of income which would have
been Dick's as a junior partner, if he had remained in the
business, was carefully laid aside for him by Mr. Farquhar; to be
delivered up, with all its accumulative interest, when the
prodigal should have proved his penitence by his conduct.
When Ruth had no call upon her time, it was indeed a holiday at
Chapel-house. She threw off as much as she could of the care and
sadness in which she had been sharing; and returned fresh and
helpful, ready to go about in her soft, quiet way, and fill up
every measure of service, and heap it with the fragrance of her
own sweet nature. The delicate mending, that the elder women
could no longer see to do, was put by for Ruth's swift and nimble
fingers. The occasional copying, or patient writing to dictation,
that gave rest to Mr.
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