The Hamlets: A TaleJames Munroe & Company, 1836 - 181 pages |
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Page 160 - Harriet had no thought of reasoning with poor Betsy just now ; but she did wonder who should bear the burden of the profligacy of one party, if not the other guilty party. To visit it upon the innocent rate-payers, that the guilty parties might go free, seemed very unjust. She thought Ben would have good reason to complain if he were compelled to pay any part of what Jem would not pay, for the support of Jem's child, that Betsy_ might live at 'ease. It was a heavy burden for poor Betsy to bear ;...
Page 86 - I wish he would not tug so hard, and then I should be sure to catch him. There ! now he sees me. How tiresome this deep sand is!" To Ben's questions of where she had been, and what she had been doing, she could give no answer at present, Monk was calling so impatiently. She must just say, that Ben must not...