How will I protect myself if you do not?’
‘If you will only confide in me, I will be happy to protect you,’ Gerald said
cheerfully. “I wonder why
people in love are so defiant, so careless of other considerations?”
“The very hares grow brave. It’s—Mrs. ’
‘Like this?’
‘Parfait. At times he seemed to be claiming
pity from her; at times he was threatening her with her check and exposure; at
times he was boasting of his inflexible will, and how, in the end, he always got
what he wanted. \"No, what?\" She
said. A few bricks,
dislodged probably by his last descent, came clattering down the chimney, and as
it was perfectly dark, gave him the notion that some one was endeavouring to
force an entrance into the room. But these fears, like those he had recently experienced, speedily vanished, and
he prepared to return to the roof, congratulating himself that owing to the
opportune falling of the bricks, he had in all probability escaped serious injury. ”
The man obeyed his orders noiselessly and then left the room. To her chagrin, he ignored her, and turned a venomous eye on his betrothed. There was one letter. ‘Did she call you that?’ asked Lucilla, amused.
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