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"Is is she safe, David, is he himself? Oh, I must go down there. I know I can reason " He stopped her gently. "Please, Christine," he commanded. She suddenly put her hands to his face, and looked into his eyes. "If anything were to happen to her," she whispered in agony, "I would " "She is perfectly safe," he broke in. "Your father will not mistreat her."
Beaton so far admitted him to the conversation as to seem reminded of the piano by his mentioning it. He said to Mela, "Oh, won't you just strike those chords?" and as Mela wheeled about and beat the keys he took the banjo from Christine and sat down with it. "This way!"
Yesterday he named them, and Count Gleichen and his retainers appeared with several others. The Minorite Benedictus was vainly sought at the Franciscans." "He is here in the house of the Beguines," replied Frau Christine, "and weak as he is, he will have strength enough to make a deposition in the knight's favour."
For a moment his heart stood still, and his tongue was paralyzed. A distant explosion aroused him. Christine!" But the light of the coming fire played and flickered over the still, white face, that never before had seemed so strangely beautiful. "Miss Ludolph! Oh, Christine, awake!" cried Dennis, louder.
The marquis was not long in detecting that Alfonso lacked his usual buoyancy of spirits, and so rightly concluded that the meeting with Christine the night before had resulted unfavorably. Alfonso explained all that transpired, and the two artists, who had flattered themselves that they knew women well, admitted to each other their keen disappointment in Christine's character.
Nor was she, he thought bitterly, too proud to stoop to ask a man to reconsider; nor did it seem likely, however deeply Linburne's vanity had been wounded, that he would refuse to listen. With this in mind, as soon as he reached his hotel, he sat down and wrote her a letter: "My dear Christine: "What was it, according to your idea, that happened this afternoon?
There was no country expedition for Riatt that day. He rushed down-town, leaving a short message for Christine, and by night he knew the worst, knew that the liabilities of the firm far exceeded any possible assets, knew positively that the comfortable sum he had intended to preserve for himself had been swept away, knew that he now really had to begin life over.
"Just for the sake of information," he said, "do you always want to take away any man who is safely devoted to another woman?" Christine seemed resolved to be accurate. "It depends," she answered, "whether or not I have anything else to do, but of course the idea always pops into one's head: I wonder if I couldn't make him like me best." "And do you always find you can?"
The Delaware and its bay below the city are broad and without sudden bends. Ice does not gather, and the influence of the ocean, by its tidal movement and salt water, makes the breaking of a channel comparatively easy. The Christine harbor, from any point near its mouth, can be kept open to the sea in all ordinary winters by a stout and well-built tug.
It must be a great thing to be loved, she thought rather sadly; nobody had ever loved her; no man had ever looked at her as Kettering looked at little Christine. . . . She opened the window and looked out into the darkness. It was a mild, damp night. Grey mist veiled the garden and shut out the stars; everything was very silent.
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