Martin does hold
out hopes."
Charlotte had meant to imply that it was Ernest who was at the
bottom of all the inconvenience felt by Theobald, herself, Joey, and
everyone else, and she had actually got words out which should
convey this; true, she had not dared to stick to them and had turned
them off, but she had made them hers at any rate for one brief moment,
and this was better than nothing. Ernest noticed throughout his
mother's illness, that Charlotte found immediate occasion to make
herself disagreeable to him whenever either the doctor or nurse
pronounced her mother to be a little better. When she wrote to
Crampsford to desire the prayers of the congregation (she was sure her
mother would wish it, and that the Crampsford people would be
pleased at her remembrance of them), she was sending another letter on
some quite different subject at the same time, and put the two letters
into the wrong envelopes. Ernest was asked to take these letters to
the village post office, and imprudently did so; when the error came
to be discovered Christina happened to have rallied a little.
Charlotte flew at Ernest immediately, and laid all the blame of the
blunder upon his shoulders.
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