‘Very wise,’ he commented, slightly relaxing his arm. She felt his whole
mind sounding in ecstasy. "Don't leave him, if you're at all fearful, my dear," replied Wood, receiving the
little burthen with a laugh. ’
‘But, Marthe, you do not imagine that I would have taken the veil like you,
even if you have not told me. "To him I owe everything," continued the widow, "life itself—nay, more than
life,—for without his assistance I should have perished, body and soul. I'd like to shake you until your bones rattled; but the bones of a
Roundhead wouldn't rattle to any purpose. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. All the money he earned—serving McClintock and the muse—could be
laid away. "You will finish your education in the East and return. Stanley went on, “but there are things—
there are stories about Ramage. I came to beg you instead to do
me the honour of becoming my wife.
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