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He had his compunctions in thus moving against Rina while she was absent on an errand for Natalie; but he consoled himself with the thought that Rina, with all she could do, had still a heavy score to pay off. He told Natalie what he was about to do; and at her earnest pleading carried her out of the tent, and propped her partly upright at the edge of the lake where she would be able to see him.
Natalie immediately came forward, offering her hand. Rina clung to it without speaking, turning away her head to hide welling tears. "Where did you meet these people?" Garth asked her. "On the prairie," she answered, low-voiced. "Yesterday, noon spell. They coming this way. Nick Grylls, him mak' moch friend with 'Erbe't, and 'Erbe't, him glad.
Even certain forms of Colonial mahogany were art, although he was not fond of them. And Natalie was art. Even if she represented the creative instincts of her dressmaker and her milliner, and not her own he did not like a Louis XV sofa the less that it had not carved itself. Possibly Natalie appealed then to his collective instinct, he had not analyzed it.
While Count Paulo thus spoke, with a sad, foreboding soul, those two mysterious men, who had so threateningly watched and listened to Natalie and her friend, still remained under the wall. The one still held the dagger in his hand, and was unquietly walking back and forth near his companion, who had calmly thrown himself upon the ground. "You did wrong to hinder me, Beppo," he angrily said.
"Natalie must first be completely separated from this society, and then I will seek this man and render him incapable of mischief!" thought he. By main strength he made himself a path through the crowd surrounding Corilla, and now stood near Cardinal Bernis, at whose side still remained Natalie and Count Paulo. "You have struck the lyre like an Apollo," exclaimed the cardinal to the singer.
Next morning I was early astir, for I must see Natalie Brande without delay, and I felt sure she would be no sluggard on that splendid summer day. I tried the lawn between the house and the lake shore. I did not find her there. I found her friend Miss Metford. The girl was sauntering about, swinging a walking-cane carelessly.
I here vow, that should the gracious Lord see fit to chasten his servant, by taking away this, my last support, it shall only serve to increase my faith in the love of my most precious Redeemer!" and with tearful eyes the old gentleman held his grand-daughter to his heart. "And is it really thus?" asked Natalie; "can it be that my mother has been looking down upon me, from her home in the skies?"
"If you are in any doubt about it," observed Natalie, with an air of superb indifference, "I advise you to write for advice to the etiquette editor of the 'Kenton City Record. She is probably sixty-two years old, looks like an English walnut, has never had a proposal in her life, and so knows all about"
Jealousy has a Second Sight of its own. He had looked in the right place at starting and, oh heavens! he had caught them. Her ladyship's courage was beyond dispute; but she turned pale as she approached the entrance to the boudoir. There stood Natalie at once angry and afraid between the man to whom she was ostensibly engaged, and the man to whom she was actually married.
He knows not of Pere Francois' advice. He smiles in complacent glee. He has broken many a weak woman's nerve: she is only one more. While he ponders, waiting that reply, Natalie Santos, with heavy heart, tells the priest the story of her tryst with her old lover. Pere Francois smiles thoughtfully. He answers: "Be calm. You will be protected. Trust to me. I will confer with our advisers.
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