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"And what would you do with this diamond worth something considerable, Fragoso?" queried Lina. "Sell it!" "Then you would get rich all of a sudden!" "Very rich!" "Well, if you had been rich three months ago you would never have had the idea of that liana!" "And if I had not had that," exclaimed Fragoso, "I should not have found a charming little wife who well, assuredly, all is for the best!"
I know no mother but this one," and the white hand reached itself toward Mrs. Worthington, who took it unhesitatingly and held it between her own, while 'Lina continued: "I've given you little cause to love me, and I know how glad you must be that another, and not I, is your real daughter. I did not know what made me so bad, but I understand it now.
Worthington, too, bent down, but, upon a closer scrutiny, the mark seemed only a small, blue vein. "She's pretty," she said. "I wonder why I feel so drawn toward her?" 'Lina was about to reply, when again the brown eyes looked up, and the stranger asked hesitatingly: "Where am I? And is he here! Is this his house?" "Whose house?" Mrs. Worthington asked.
Half an hour later, had he looked into the parlor, he would have seen a frightened, white-faced man crouching at Anna Richards' side and whispering to her as if all life, all strength, all power to act for himself were gone: "What must I do? Tell me what to do." This was a puzzle to Anna, and she replied by asking him another question. "Do you love 'Lina Worthington?"
Her mother had also forbidden her to go on the water, and had declared that Solomon was too young to manage a boat; but neither Lina nor her brother had very tender consciences. If they did wrong things, and nobody knew it, it was all very well; but if they were found out ah! then was the time to be sorry!
Oh, Hugh! the memory of what I've been to him is the hardest part of all," and covering her face with the sheet, 'Lina wept bitterly; while Hugh, who was standing behind her, laid his warm hand on her head, smoothing her hair caressingly, as he said: "Never mind that, 'Lina; I, too, was bad to you. If 'Lina can forgive me, I surely can forgive 'Lina."
"I hoped this might have been spared her," he thought, as, kneeling by the couch, he said, kindly: "Adah, I am more pained to see you here than I can express. Why did you come, and where is " The name was lost to 'Lina, and muttering to herself: "It does not sound much like a man and wife," she rather unwillingly quitted her position, and Hugh was really alone with Adah.
Had a clap of thunder cleft the air around her, 'Lina could not have started up sooner than she did. The convict took his eyes away from her, pitying her so much, while Densie's bony hand was raised as if to thrust her off, and Densie's voice exclaimed: "Not this, not this. She despises me, a white nigger. I will not be her mother. The other one Densie, I named her she is mine "
A night-lamp of pale alabaster shed its soft moonlight through the room, and when bursts of thunder shook the heavens, and the lightning flashed and gleamed around the single Gothic casement of her chamber, it only gave to this pearly light a golden tinge, and made Lina smile more dreamily in her happy slumber.
The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel, "Never leave me, and I will never leave thee." Fundevogel said, "Neither now, nor ever." Then said Lina, "Do thou become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it."
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