After listening
attentively for a short time without drawing breath, he became convinced that his
apprehensions were groundless, and, greatly relieved, sat down upon the chair to
rest himself and prepare for further efforts. His pride, however, would not
suffer him to interfere with their proceedings; much less could he bring himself
to acknowledge that he had been in the wrong, and entreat Lady Trafford to
remain, though he was well aware that her life might be endangered if she
travelled by night. She did not understand the note of hostility to men that
ran through it all, the bitter vindictiveness that lit Miss Miniver’s cheeks and
eyes, the sense of some at last insupportable wrong slowly accumulated. ” She replied. ’
‘In that case, I ought to warn you that my friend, Captain Hilary Roding, who
is even less sympathique than myself, you remember, will undoubtedly arrest
you for murder. From the first there had always been between her and
her listeners that electrical sympathy which only a certain order of genius seems
able to create. Heliers. "
"In whose favour is it made?" he inquired, sternly. The inner apartment was rather gracefully furnished with a thick, fine Turkish
carpet, a good brass fender, a fine old bureau, and on the walls were engravings
of two young girls’ heads by Greuze, and of some modern picture of boys
bathing in a sunlit pool. But I see very clearly that as things are a
daughter is necessarily dependent on her father and bound while she is in that
position to live harmoniously with his ideals. When he returned, a moment or so afterwards, he found Sir Rowland standing
by the lifeless body of his sister. ”
Drummond shook his head in melancholy fashion. "Never—never!"
The words were scarcely pronounced, when the door was violently thrown open,
and two men appeared at it.
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