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I don't want to pull a hand-sled and wear moccasins all my life, and raise children for men with whiskers. I want to be loved I want to be loved! I want to marry a gentleman." "Burrell!" said Gale. "No!" she flared up. "Not him nor anybody in particular, but somebody like him, some man with clean finger-nails."
"I make bold to tell you, lady, I care not so much as you may imagine for your affections, which I know you have sufficient principle to recall, and bestow upon the possessor of that fair hand, whoever he may be. Nay, look not so wrathful, for I know that which would make your proud look quail, and the heiress of Cecil rejoice that she could yet become the wife of Sir Willmott Burrell!"
Wainwright and Wilson had been killed; Renshaw, with his executive officer, Zimmermann, and his chief engineer, Green, had perished with the ship. The survivors were given three hours to consider terms. When Burrell saw the flag of truce from the fleet, he too showed the white flag and surrendered to the commander of the Confederate troops.
"Are the things inside very wet?" "No; they are just as dry as they can be." "Good. Are Harriet's clothes there?" "I think so. Shall I take them out?" "Not just yet. I will tell you if they are needed." Hazel understood what was in the mind of the guardian. Were Harriet Burrell not to recover, the dry clothing would not be needed.
"Forgive me, sir," replied Burrell, who perceived that the delay, under such circumstances, however dangerous, must be granted; "but it is natural for a bridegroom to feel disappointed when there arises any postponement to his long looked-for happiness, particularly when there be reasons strong as mine against it."
"I refer to the thrilling experiences of Miss Burrell and Miss Thompson in battling with the big seas far out there in the darkness, and with every reason to believe that their efforts would prove of no avail. It is not the battle of despair to which I refer. There was no such. Rather, it was that dogged courage that never even permits a suggestion of give-up to enter the mind of the fighter.
The girls began work at once, Janus showing them how to make the kind of corn cakes that are popular with the mountain guides in the White Mountain range. All the time Harriet Burrell was thinking intently over their situation and the loss of the supplies. She was considering the perplexing problems from different viewpoints, with a view toward solving them.
Zillah's jealousy kept pace with her headlong love, and in one of its most violent paroxysms she made the attempt on the life of Burrell, which, it is easy to believe, he never forgave.
But for such a one to be the victim of Sir Willmott Burrell a traitor! a coward the thought was insupportable. After many contending ideas, he came to the resolution that, cost what it would, he would put the case in all its bearings to Major Wellmore another mystery he vainly sought to unravel, but who had evidently powerful interest with the family at Cecil Place.
"I heard him repeat the name of Burrell, and that of my dear lady, two or three times; but what he meant I cannot fathom. Oh, but he had a wild and terrible look! Why should he seek to harm me?" "Why, indeed!" echoed Robin; "it must be seen into, and that immediately. I'll speak anon of it to Dalton." "To Dalton!" in her turn echoed the girl "Oh! that fearful man "
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