A Romance of Billy-goat Hill
Copyright© 2024 by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
Chapter 31
That evening Mr. Gooch went home with the Ivys whom, as he was now adrift, he purposed adopting. For a long time they sat over the fire discussing the exciting events of the day.
“I could scarcely believe my eyes,” murmured Mrs. Ivy, “when at the verdict,’ Not Guilty,’ I saw her fling her arms about his neck!”
“Why surprised?” snapped the attorney. “Aren’t women born fatuous?”
“But the whole thing is so indelicate, so heartless! A young widow who ought to be mourning beside her husband’s grave, and a wild young man who has just escaped the penitentiary. Hasn’t suffering taught them anything?”
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