The Wolves and the Lamb by William Makepeace Thackeray
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children's friend! be mine, and make me happy! Don't leave me, Julia!
say you won't--say you won't--dearest--dearest girl! MISS P.--I won't--leave--you. GEORGE [without].--Oh, I say! Arabella, look here: here's papa a-kissing Miss Prior! LADY K.--Horace--Clarence my son! Shade of my Arabella! can you behold this horrible scene, and not shudder in heaven! Bulkeley! Clarence! go for a doctor--go to Doctor Straitwaist at the Asylum--Horace Milliken, who has married the descendant of the Kickleburys of the Conqueror, marry a dancing-girl off the stage! Horace Milliken! do you wish to see me die in convulsions at your feet? I writhe there, I grovel there. Look! look at me on my knees! your own mother-in-law! drive away this fiend! MILLIKEN.--Hem! I ought to thank you, Lady Kicklebury, for it is you that have given her to me. LADY K.--He won't listen! he turns away and kisses her horrible hand. This will never do: help me up, Clarence, I must go and fetch his mother. Ah, ah! there she is, there she is! [Lady K. rushes out, as the top of a barouche, with Mr. and Mrs. BONNINGTON and Coachman, is seen over the gate.] MRS. B.--What is this I hear, my son, my son? You are going to marry a--a stage-dancer? you are driving me mad, Horace! MILLIKEN.--Give me my second chance, mother, to be happy. You have had |
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