"Understand me, my dear girl. cheap uggs online I had no doubt of your beingcontented and happy with me, being so dutiful and so devoted; but Isaw with whom you would be happier. That I penetrated his secretwhen Dame Durden was blind to it is no wonder, for I knew the goodthat could never change in her better far than she did. Well! Ihave long been in Allan Woodcourt's confidence, although he wasnot, until yesterday, a few hours before you came here, in mine.
     　　But I would not have my Esther's bright example lost; I would nothave a jot of my dear girl's virtues unobserved and unhonoured; Iwould not have her admitted on sufferance into the uggs discount line of Morganap-Kerrig, no, not for the weight in gold of all the mountains inWales!"He stopped to kiss me on the forehead, and I sobbed and weptafresh. For I felt as if I could not bear the painful delight ofhis praise.
     　　"Hush, little woman! Don't cry; this is to be a day of joy. Ihave looked forward to it," he said exultingly, "for months onmonths! A few words more, Dame Trot, and I have said my say.
     　　Determined not to throw away one atom of my Esther's worth, I tookMrs. Woodcourt into a separate confidence. 'Now, madam,' said I,'I clearly perceive--and indeed I know, discount uggs for women to boot--that your sonloves my ward. I am further very sure that my ward loves your son,but will sacrifice her love to a sense of duty and affection, andwill sacrifice it so completely, so entirely, so religiously, thatyou should never suspect it though you watched her night and day.'
     　　Then I told her all our story--ours--yours and mine. 'Now, madam,'
     　　said I, 'come you, knowing this, and live with us. Come you, andsee my child from hour to hour; set what you see against herpedigree, which is this, and this'--for I scorned to mince it--'andtell me what is the true legitimacy when you shall discount uggs for women have quite madeup your mind on that subject.' Why, honour to her old Welsh blood,my dear," cried my guardian with enthusiasm, "I believe the heartit animates beats no less warmly, no less admiringly, no lesslovingly, towards Dame Durden than my own!"He tenderly raised my head, and as I clung to him, kissed me in hisold fatherly way again and again. What a light, now, on theprotecting manner I had thought about!
     　　"One more last word. When Allan Woodcourt spoke to you, my dear,he spoke with my knowledge and consent--but I gave him noencouragement, not I, for these surprises were my great reward, andI discount ugg boots was too miserly to part with a scrap of it. He was to come andtell me all that passed, and he did. I have no more to say. Mydearest, Allan Woodcourt stood beside your father when he lay dead--stood beside your mother. This is Bleak House. This day I givethis house its little mistress; and before God, it is the brightestday in all my life!"He rose and raised me with him. We were no longer alone. Myhusband--I have called him by that name full seven happy years now--stood at my side.