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Do you know who that man is who has just left the house? Answer me, Mr. Germaine! I am speaking in earnest." There was no choice but to answer her. She was indeed in earnest vehemently in earnest. "His letter tells me," I said, "that he is Mr. Van Brandt." She sat down again, and turned her face away from me. "Do you know how he came to write to you?" she asked.
The latter had leaned forward, as Jonathan passed by to take a seat with his brother, and said something in a low tone to Mordaunt and Case. Jonathan knew by the way the Englishman and his man quickly glanced up at him, that he had been the subject of the remark. Suddenly Williams jumped to his feet with an oath. "I'm cleaned out," he cried. "Shall we play alone?" asked Brandt of Mordaunt.
Such a friend I should reward with a gold- piece for every minute of my bliss, for every minute I should be allowed to remain near the great emperor." "Do you speak in earnest, your highness?" asked Major von Brandt, gravely and almost solemnly. "In solemn earnest!" asseverated Marianne. "A gold-piece for every minute of an interview with the Emperor Napoleon."
Leave him, and come with me to a future that is worthy of you your future as my wife." "Never!" she answered, crouching low at my feet. "Why not? What obstacle is there?" "I can't tell you I daren't tell you." "Will you write it?" "No, I can't even write it to you. Go, I implore you, before Van Brandt comes back. Go, if you love me and pity me." She had roused my jealousy.
The next day proved cloudy, and with night began a violent storm of wind and rain. Brandt cowered over his fire till nine o'clock, and then taking a slight draught from his flask, chuckled, "This is glorious weather for my work. Here's to Clara's luck this time!" In little over an hour he started for the mine, near which he concealed his horse.
Would another man in my position have discovered what I had failed to see? Van Brandt? Was there anything left in our faces, when we met again by the Scotch river, to remind us of our younger selves? We had developed, in the interval, from boy and girl to man and woman: no outward traces were discernible in us of the George and Mary of other days.
Louisa and Brandt had met in Philadelphia some years before, when both were students in that city, and he was rejoiced to meet her again, for he had made no secret of his liking for her, and in view of the bravery she had shown in thus riding into a hostile camp his fondness increased to admiration.
My notion is to lie low in the hills two or three hours this afternoon, and give Brandt a chance to send his men out to meet us. The responsibility will be on them, and we can be sworn in as deputies, too," They rested in a grassy draw, about fifteen miles from town, and took the trail again shortly after dark.
She turned quickly. "What do you mean?" "You have given him no chance as yet of recovering his freedom." She passed her hand over her face, and sat down on the sofa. "Do you mean divorce?" "It's an ugly word, dear Madame Brandt," said I, as gently as I could, "but you and I are strong people and needn't fear uttering it.
You must not interfere." Helen gazed at him, at Brandt, and then up at the borderman. She did not loose his arm. "Outside some one told me you intended to shoot him. Is it true?" Colonel Zane evaded the searching gaze of those strained, brilliant eyes. Nor did he answer. As Helen stepped slowly back a hush fell upon the crowd. The whispering, the nervous coughing, and shuffling of feet, ceased.
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