Missus Reed's Aversion to Me

Since my illness, she had drawn a more marked line of separation than ever between me and her own children. John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement. But as i instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist and ran from me. Eliza and georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible. I do not choose that either you or your sister should associate with her. What would uncle reed say to you if he were alive? Was my scarcely voluntary demand.

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