Money would relieve her of Mary
Wells, and distance cut all the other cords.
And, indeed, a time came when she looked back on her present situation
with wonder at the distress it had caused her. "I was in shallow water
then," said she--"but now!"
CHAPTER XX.
SIR CHARLES observed that he was never trusted alone. He remarked this,
and inquired, with a peculiar eye, why that was.
Lady Bassett had the tact to put on an innocent look and smile, and
say: "That is true, dearest. I _have_ tied you to my apron-string
without mercy. But it serves you right for having fits and frightening
me. You get well, and my tyranny will cease at once."
However, after this she often left him alone in the garden, to remove
from his mind the notion that he was under restraint from her.
Mr. Bassett observed this proceeding from his tower.
One day Mr. Angelo called, and Lady Bassett left Sir Charles in the
garden, to go and speak to him.
She had not been gone many minutes when a boy ran to Sir Charles, and
said, "Oh, sir, please come to the gate; the lady has had a fall, and
hurt herself."
Sir Charles, much alarmed, followed the boy, who took him to a side
gate opening on the high-road. Sir Charles rushed through this, and was
passing between two stout fellows that stood one on each side the gate,
when they seized him, and lifted him in a moment into a close carriage
that was waiting on the spot.
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