human
I took you in as an honest girl and treated you kindly. In return you imposed on me, disgraced my house, and broke up my business!
gpt
Oh, madame!
human
Two of my best hands have quit me in disgust, and the other three threaten to go unless I turn you away at once. Do you know the reason, pray?
gpt
Take off that cape you've been shrouded in all the winter, pretending to suffer from the cold, and let me see if it is really hiding your disgrace.
human
Oh, spare me!
gpt
Do as I bid you! There! I've dragged it off in spite of you! Oh, for shame--shame! How could you be so wicked with that innocent face?
human
Oh, I am not as bad as you think! I--I--
gpt
Hush! You can't excuse your disgrace. Mr. Sparks told me all along you were a bad girl, and told me when we became engaged I must send you to the right-about before we were married. But, somehow, I couldn't believe ill of you, till I see it now with my own eyes.
human
Oh! may I stay till to-morrow? You will not drive me out into the streets to-night?
gpt
I ought to do it to pay you for cheating me so; but I'm a Christian woman, and, somehow, I pity you, and I can't be hard on you. You may stay to-night; but you must leave in the morning directly after breakfast. There's a hospital in this city for poor girls that's gone astray like you. You can go there, and the good doctor will take you in and let you stay till your child is born. Then you can put it in the foundlings' home and some good people may adopt it.
human
Merciful God, have pity!
gpt
and placed in a foundlings' home, to be
human
Oh, God! take us both--the forsaken mother and child--to heaven!
gpt
It's too late to take on now. Better behaved yourself right at first, the old maid admonished her; adding, soothingly:
human
Go to bed now, and I'll send to-morrow for the good doctor to come and take you to the lying-in hospital.