Bribed by a
certain Sir Rowland Trenchard, Jonathan kidnapped the carpenter's adopted son,
Thames Darrell, and placed him in the hands of a Dutch Skipper, with orders to
throw him overboard when he got out to sea; and though this was proved as clear
as day, the rascal managed matters so adroitly, and gave such a different
complexion to the whole affair, that he came off with flying colours. I have
been dreaming of your body and you night after night. I loitered in the shop as you
chatted with the butcher’s girl. "I read those stories. “What the devil are you doing star-gazing
here?”
Ennison looked at him in surprise. ‘Gérard, do not go,’ she cried, breathless. We shall never have an heir, you and I! My family is
crumbling; all of my brothers are dead. I might utter a million, and still I doubt if I could make you understand. "
CHAPTER IX. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. One never
knew when it would be necessary to resume her disguise. Because here was the haven for which she had been blindly groping: the positive
abolition of all her father's rights in her—the right to drag her back.
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