I meant, why did it come to
nothing about the cement?"
"You did not know your father: there were too many hooks about him
for him to be able to carry out anything."
"Hooks?"
"Yes! eccentricity, egotism, passion, which caught fast in
everything."
"What did he propose to do?"
"No one was to be allowed to have anything to do with it, no one
was to know of it, he was to be everything! For this reason the
timber was to be cut down and sold; and when we were married--I
say when we were married, the whole of my fortune was to be used
as well."
He saw the horror with which she still regarded it; she was
passing through the whole struggle again; and he understood that
he must not question her further. She made a gesture with her
hand; and he asked hurriedly, "Why did you not tell me before,
mother?"
"Because it would have brought you no good," she answered
decidedly.
He felt, nay, he saw that she believed that it would bring him no
good now. She again raised her hand, and he left her.
When he was once more in the boat, taking his great news to the
parsonage, he thought to himself, Here is the reason of my
father's and mother's deadly enmity.
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