The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Dream Classics)

by Anne Brontë

have picked it up myself; only I did not want to disturb the cat.’ ‘Mary, dear, that won’t excuse you in Mr Markham’s eyes,’ said Eliza; ‘he hates cats, I dare say, as cordially as he does old maids—like all other gentlemen—Don’t you, Mr Markham?’