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He rose to his feet and spoke strongly. "Harden, as Miss Annot says, everything has changed. I never foresaw this; I do not understand it myself." He went slowly to the mantelpiece and leaned against it. "When I created this germ, I saw in my mind an ideal picture of life. I saw a world freed from a dire spectre, a world from which fear had been removed, the fear of death.
They were right, I find, when they told me that you were such a coquette, you would have a dozen lovers at the same time." "And they were right, I find, when they told me you were too fond of yourself ever to love any girl truly." "Oh, Annot! and is it come to this? I'm sorry I ever came to Echanbroignes. I'm sorry I ever saw you."
"Oh, father! dear father!" said she. "Get up then, Annot, and I'll speak to thee. I never saw thee in this way before." "Oh, father!" she said, sobbing violently, "do you love your poor daughter so very, very much?" "Love you, Annot! why yes, I do love you. If you'll be a good girl, that is, I will love you." "I will be a good girl, dear father; indeed I'll be a good girl; at any rate I'll try.
"I did not go so far, my lord," answered Menteith "I only said in the present circumstances and there is no prospect of their being changed, I could, in duty to myself and family, stand in no relation to Annot Lyle, but as that of friend or brother But your lordship must excuse me; I have," said he, looking at his arm, round which he had tied his handkerchief, "a slight hurt to attend to."
"Why, you see, M. Henri, Annot is a poor lone girl, quite unprotected as any one may say, though, of course, she will not be unprotected, when she will have the protection of Monsieur and Madame; but still she is a poor lone girl, and as such, she won't have the the the what d'ye call it, you know, which she would have as a married woman the confidence and station, you know: she wouldn't be half so useful to Madame; and, therefore, perhaps, Monsieur will think that she and I had better be married at the same time as Madame."
"Make your choice, then," said Allan; "your delicacy may be well founded; the others will assume a shape in which they may be more useful to you." "Think not of it," said Annot, choosing from the contents of the casket a ring, apparently the most trifling in value which it contained; "keep them for your own, or your brother's bride.
"I should have no objection that my brother Allan should try his chance," added he, "notwithstanding that Sir Duncan Campbell was the only man who ever charged Darnlinvarach with inhospitality. Annot Lyle could always charm Allan out of the sullens, and who knows whether matrimony might not make him more a man of this world?"
The care and attention, accordingly, of Annot Lyle, her attendants, and others acting under her direction, had made her services extremely useful during this wild campaign. And most readily had these services been rendered to friend and foe, wherever they could be most useful.
The truth is, I mean to settle down too, Michael Stein." "Well," said Michael, scratching his head, and listening for the remainder of Chapeau's little proposition. "And I want to marry the girl of my heart, whom I love better than all the world, and her name is Annot Stein, and there's an end of it; and now you know all about it."
I will not disguise from your lordship, what I have not disguised from M'Aulay, that if Annot Lyle were born a lady, she should share my name and rank; as matters stand, it is impossible. This explanation, I trust, will satisfy your lordship, as it has satisfied a less reasonable person." Montrose shrugged his shoulders.
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