I felt as though I had
bandaged eyes. She could tell that he probably
wanted to kiss her, but she did not act upon the
opportunity. Certain reserves went down on both sides. She was trying by some wonderful, secret, and motionless gymnastics to
restrain her tears. ”
He fancied that she was yielding, but her eyes fell once more upon that fatal
envelope, and her tone when she spoke was colder than ever. Wood
dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion,
essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper
to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as
we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted
the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he
had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. “The thing I feel most disposed to say, Miss Stanley,” he began at last, “is that
this is very sudden. Here, Jem,
take the gentleman's horse to the stable—see him dressed and fed directly. She moved forward almost
indiscernibly, a millimeter. Melusine had confessed this morning, that she had borrowed his horse, that
Jack had met with his accident through her fault. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.
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