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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MANTJE ! MANTJE ! ' PART II.?Continued. " I Told you so !" exclaimed he, " I told you so ! I told you that that woman would never be satisfied, but would go on crying like a horse-leech for more and more! She is an artful, designing, insatiable creature, and twiddles that young fellow?who isn't made of such bad stuff himself, which is a marvel considerk-g his mother ? twiddles him round her fingers like a piece of worsted. And so she would me, if she could; and you, too, and Matilda, and everyone of us. I have no doubt in the world that when she begged that seat in our carriage, which, upon the face of it, was a harmless sort of thing enough, she was scheming this precious marriage." "She might have been scheming worse things," rejoined Mrs. Dobson. " I don't see anything so very monstrous in the proposal. On the contrary, I must say that I vastly approve of it, and feel truly obliged to its originator. Personally Mrs. Dallocourt is objectionable to me; she is too critical and too consequential; the airs she gives herself are quite intolerable; but as long as we can keep three miles between us?and you know, Charles, that with proper management that would be quite as practicable were the young people married as it is now?I can conscientiously say that my mind is free from all uncharitable feelings towards her. I feel indebted to Mrs. Dallocourt, not only because she has on more than one occasion relieved me of the duties of chaperone, but because of the willingness she now displays to relieve me altogether of those responsibilities which belong to the possession of a marriageable daughter. I have not spoken of these things before, because I felt that it was my duty as a mother to bear a mother's anxieties; but I assure you that the sooner Matilda is married, and my mind ...