Claude now resolved to tell his father the state of things, for he
well knew that though it was easy to obtain a general promise from
Emily, it was likely to be of little effect in preventing her from
spurring her willing horse to death.
The next morning he rose in time to join his father in the survey
which he usually took of his fields before breakfast, and immediately
beginning on the subject on which he was anxious, he gave a full
account of his sister's proceedings. 'In short,' said he, 'Emily and
Ada torment poor Lily every hour of her life; she bears it all as a
sort of penance, and how it is to end I cannot tell.'
'Unless,' said Mr. Mohun, smiling, 'as Rotherwood would say, Jupiter
will interfere. Well, Jupiter has begun to take measures, and has
asked Mrs. Weston to look out for a governess. Eh! Claude?' he
continued, after a pause, 'you set up your eyebrows, do you? You
think it will be a bore. Very likely, but there is nothing else to
be done. Jane is under no control, Phyllis running wild, Ada worse
managed than any child of my acquaintance--'
'And poor Lily wearing herself to a shadow, in vain attempts to mend
matters,' said Claude.
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