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She could not see anything but that last rapid turn in the saddle, and that piteous young face, showing so weird and dreamlike through the gray mist of the early dawn. Antonia had watched with her. Dare, also, had turned, but there had been something about Dare's attitude far more cheery and hopeful.
As for Dare what she was to the dear dead son depends on you." "Depends on me?" I repeated. "Depends on you. Dare's not a good Sunday-school girl, but she's good to her brother as good as you are to yours, in her way. She'll do what I want. But the question is Will you?" For a moment I did not speak. Then I asked, "What do you want?" "Only a very little thing," he said.
Dare's luminous mind. Havill had had opportunities of reading his secret, particularly on the night they occupied the same room. If so, by revealing it to Paula, Havill might utterly blast his project for the marriage. Havill, then, was at all risks to be retained as an ally.
I went to him just after you did. We passed you coming back. He did not know me at first. He thought I was you, and he kept repeating that you must keep your own counsel, and that, unless you showed Mr. Dare's marriage was illegal, he would never find it out. At last, when he suddenly recognized me, he seemed horror-struck, and the doctor came in and sent me away."
Mrs. Alwynn was much annoyed at Dare's entire want of heart in leaving the house without coming to see her, and during the remainder of the morning she did not cease to comment on the differences that exist between what people really are and what they seem to be, until, in her satisfaction at recounting the accident to Evelyn Danvers, a new and sympathetic listener, she fortunately forgot the slight put upon her ankle earlier in the day.
This man was an avowed Tory, who was vehement in his declarations of allegiance to the king, and who had been heard often to viciously proclaim that all who were not in favor of the king, were traitors and that they ought to be hung. Knowing this, and instinctively disliking the man because she knew he was vicious and bad, Mrs. Dare's heart sank when she saw who was standing there.
Not once till within the last half-hour had it recurred to his mind that he had met Dare both at Nice and at Monte Carlo; that at the latter place he had been absolutely out of money and wished to borrow, showing considerable sinister feeling when Somerset declined to lend: that on one or two previous occasions he had reasons for doubting Dare's probity; and that in spite of the young man's impoverishment at Monte Carlo he had, a few days later, beheld him in shining raiment at Carlsruhe.
Dare's feelings were touched to the quick. How beautiful! how pathetic was this dénouement! His former admiration for Charles was increased a thousand-fold. He also loved! Ah!
"I suppose, in that case, Miss Deyncourt is the person whose name you would not mention the other day?" "She is," said Dare. "You are right. It is she. We are betrothed. I will fly to her after breakfast." "You know your own affairs best," said Charles, whose temper had not been improved by the free display of Dare's finer feelings; "but I am not sure you would not do well to fly to Vandon first.
The New Year was at hand, and Daphne Dare was to give a party. She was Colonel Dare's only child, a laughing, blue-eyed, sensible girl, who attended the village school, and was in the same class with Paul. "Whom shall I invite to my party, father?" she asked. "Just whom you please, my dear," said the Colonel. "I don't know what to do about inviting Paul Parker.
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