NORTH AND SOUTH. BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARY BARTON," "RUTH,” IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1855. [The right of Translation is reserved.] 249. c. 181. WHEN Mr. Thornton had left the house that morning he was almost blinded by his baffled passion. He was as dizzy as if Margaret, instead of looking, and speaking, and moving like a tender graceful woman, had been a sturdy fish-wife, and given him a sound blow with her fists. He had positive bodily pain,-a violent headache, and a throbbing intermittent pulse. He could not bear the noise, the garish light, the continued rumble, and movement of the street. He called himself a fool for suffering so; and yet he could not, at the moment, recollect the cause of his suffering, and whether it was adequate to the consequences it had produced. It would have been a relief to him, if he could have sat down and cried on a door-step by a little child, who was raging and storming, through his passionate tears, at some injury he had received. He said to himself, that he hated Margaret, VOL. II. B |