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Where is the woman in Isabel's place whose capacity for resistance would not have yielded a little to such an appeal as this? "I should be an insensible wretch," she replied warmly, "if I didn't feel the honor you have done me, and feel it gratefully." "Does that mean you will have me for a husband?" asked downright Hardyman. "Will you forgive me," she said, "if I ask you for a little more time?
"Then his Highness should restore to thee thy lands, on due submission done." "And yield me back my childre?" "Most surely." A knot was tied upon Isabel's memory, unknown to her cousin. If Custance cared much for her children, they might prove a most effective instrument of torture. "Well! and then?" "Nay, ask at thine own self.
"She's more up on etiquette than I am." "If it's proper for husband and wife to have their names engraved on the same card," Madame went on, "it must be all right for twins." "It's more proper," Romeo returned, "because nobody is so much related as twins are. Husband and wife are only relatives by marriage." Colonel Kent laughed appreciatively. "Good! May I have some of Miss Isabel's candy?"
When Gwynne arrived at the house on Russian Hill late in the evening it occurred to him to tap on Isabel's door and tell her that he had obeyed her orders, recalled all the traditions down in their common ancestor's old domain, and "got the feel" of the place.
At the proper place the minister in the pulpit delivered an hour's sermon of the type to which Isabel was being now introduced for the first time; but bearing again and again on the point that the sacrament was a confession to the world of faith in Christ; it was in no sense a sacrificial act towards God, "as the Papists vainly taught"; this part of the sermon was spoiled, to Isabel's ears at least, by a flood of disagreeable words poured out against the popish doctrine; and the end of the sermon consisted of a searching exhortation to those who contemplated sin, who bore malice, who were in any way holding aloof from God, "to cast themselves mightily upon the love of the Redeemer, bewailing their sinful lives, and purposing to amend them."
I found it in Isabel's hand when I took her from the well!" Rosa was stricken speechless. "She clutched it tightly," Esteban hurried on, "but as I made the rope fast her hand relaxed and I saw it in the lantern-light. It was as if well, as if she gave it to me. I was too badly frightened to think much about it, as you may imagine.
That's not it; I have other reasons for wishing East Lynne to be quit of us. And now you can't go to the concert." Isabel's face flushed. "Not go, papa?" "Why, who is to take you. I can't get out of bed." "Oh, papa, I must be there. Otherwise it would like almost as though as though we had announced what we did not mean to perform.
But there should be compromise: one must not one need not cheat him of the pride of his manhood. Isabel's heart ached for her lover. She could not defend herself against him any longer, and in her yielding the warder of her will whispered, "You may yield now. Not to be frank with him now would be unfair as well as unkind."
The Governor sent the boat swiftly toward the camp with Archie and Leary close behind. Ruth, protesting that she was only chilled by her ducking, vigorously manipulated the arms of her prostrate companion. When she hailed the shore a lantern flashed in answer and the camp doctor and Isabel's mother met them at the landing.
Martin in short, everybody declared this must remove all Lady Isabel's unwillingness to go from home, for Mrs. Ducie's society would do away with the loneliness she had anticipated, which had been the ostensible score of her objection. "Boulogne-sur-Mer, of all places, in the world!" remonstrated Lady Isabel. "It is spoken of as being crowded and vulgar."
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