The Witness for the Defence, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Witness for the Defence, Vol. 1 The beginning of all this difficult business was a little speech which Mrs. Thresk fell into a habit of making to her son. She spoke it the first time on the spur of the moment without thought or intention. But she saw that it hurt. So she used it again - to keep Henry in his proper place. "You have no right to talk, Henry, " she would say in the hard practical voice which so completed her self-sufficiency. "You are not earning your living. You are still dependent upon us, " and she would add with a note of triumph: "Remember, if anything were to happen to your dear father you would have to shift for yourself, for everything has been left to me." Mrs. Thresk meant no harm. She was utterly without imagination and had no special delicacy of taste to supply its place - that was all. People and words - she was at pains to interpret neither the one nor the other and she used both at random. She no more contemplated anything happening to her husband, to quote her phrase, than she understood the effect her barbarous little speech would have on a rather reserved schoolboy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.