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"Most willingly, if you desire it," returned Sumners, moving towards the door; "but believe me, De Haldimar, you may make your mind tranquil on the subject; Erskine spoke with certainty." "Have you seen Valletort?" asked De Haldimar, while an involuntary shudder pervaded his fame. "I have.
She is an angel in disposition, all that is dear, tender, and affectionate, all that is gentle and lovely in woman; one whose welfare is dearer far to me than my own, and without whose presence I could not live. Valletort, that prize, that treasure, that dearer half of myself, is yours, yours for ever. I have long wished you should love, each other, and I felt, when you met, you would.
"Most willingly, if you desire it," returned Sumners, moving towards the door; "but believe me, De Haldimar, you may make your mind tranquil on the subject; Erskine spoke with certainty." "Have you seen Valletort?" asked De Haldimar, while an involuntary shudder pervaded his fame. "I have.
"Your wife, sir!" haughtily observed the governor, with irrepressible astonishment and indignation in his voice; "what mean you? Gentlemen, resume your places in the ranks. Clara Miss de Haldimar, I command you to retire instantly to your apartment. We will discourse of this later, Sir Everard Valletort. I trust you have not dared to offer an indignity to my child."
Steingall's face betrayed no more expression than that of the Sphinx, though inwardly he was consumed with laughter; he himself was chief of the Bureau, and Clancy was his most trusted assistant! Certainly, the gods were contriving a spicy dish for the news-loving inhabitants of New York. The Earl of Valletort turned on his heel, and went out abruptly.
Hunter will be inquired into most searchingly." The detective spoke so impressively that Lord Valletort eyed him with a species of misgiving, while Count Vassilan, whose knowledge of English was excellent, had broken out into a perspiration. A smooth, mellifluous voice suddenly intervened. Otto Schmidt thought fit to assume a role for which Lord Valletort was manifestly ill equipped.
"Oh, Sir Everard Valletort, I thought I was with you, and that you had saved me from this monster. Where is my brother? Where are Frederick and Madeline? Why have they deserted me? Ah! my heart will break. I cannot endure this longer, and live." "Clara, Miss de Haldimar," groaned Sir Everard, in a voice of searching agony; "could I lay down my life for you, I would; but you see these bonds.
The dying man was Sir Everard Valletort, who, supported by pillows, was concluding a narrative that had chained the earnest attention of his auditory, even amid the deep and heartfelt sympathy perceptible in each for the forlorn and hopeless condition of the narrator.
Clara de Haldimar was the constant theme of her younger brother's praise. Her image was ever uppermost in his thoughts her name ever hovering on his lips; and when alone with his friend Valletort, it was his delight to dwell on the worth and accomplishments of his amiable and beloved sister.
It was while labouring under the disheartening consciousness of danger, peculiar to all, that the anxious boatswain summoned Captain de Haldimar and Sir Everard Valletort, by a significant beck of the finger, to the side of the deck opposite to that on which still lay the suffering and nearly broken-hearted girls.
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