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"Inform on me if you dare," she said, "or utter such an opinion to papa, and I will make you and your baby both suffer for it, and that lame hop-toad too, who follows you everywhere like your shadow! Moreover, if you do breathe a syllable of this slander, I shall tell Mr. Bainrothe your opinion of him, and make him your enemy.
Stanbury and Mr. Bainrothe, filled with blooming plants in the summer season, but bare and desolate and gray enough in winter. Mrs. Her husband had been a sea-captain, and, being cut off suddenly, had, with the exception of the house she lived in, left her no estate.
"Very few, Miriam, and Claude Bainrothe is not unlike the majority of his fellows. Men count it no wrong to deceive women." "O Evelyn, you are too severe, I think. Why seek to shake my confidence in the man I love? He did not happen to suit your fancy, and you rejected him. I took what you cast aside, humbly, thankfully, dear Evelyn. Why resent this, and scorn me for my humility?
You are very much in their hands for the present, I fear; but I hope they will do you justice." "I shall not marry Claude Bainrothe," I rejoined at last, firmly. "Let this be perfectly understood between us two, Dr. Pemberton. That marriage will never take place!" "Why, your own father told me you were engaged in October last!" "I have changed my mind since then. Understand me, I admire Mr.
Tall, slender, graceful, strong for strength alone bestows such easy perfection of movement, such equipoise of step as belonged to him with a fine, clear-cut face and well-shaped head, nobly placed on his straight, square shoulders wide for a man so slight dark eyed, dark haired, with a mouth somewhat concealed by a long silken mustache, then an unusual coxcombry in our republic, yet revealing in glimpses superb teeth and the curve of accurately-cut lips, Claude Bainrothe stood before me, a young Apollo.
"What poem do you allude to?" said Evelyn, superciliously. "'Paradise Lost? Oh, I thought Milton was a Unitarian, not quite a Jew; almost as bad though!" "No, the book of Job," replied Mr. Bainrothe. "It was that I alluded to." "And the Psalms," I added, breathlessly. "Dear me," said Evelyn, "what an array of learning we have all at once! Why, every Sunday-school child knows about the Psalms.
Who, then, shall penetrate the mysteries of divine intention? Claude Bainrothe had been arrested, but, after close and thorough examination, was dismissed as irresponsible for and ignorant of his father's acts and designs, a sentence afterward revoked, as far as public opinion was concerned. Evelyn, Mabel, and Mrs.
"Having brought him to his knees, you are perfectly willing to pass him over to me as a bond-slave. Is that the idea, Evelyn?" "Exactly, Miriam; you are always so penetrating! But don't tell, for the world. Old Bainrothe would never forgive me; and, as I once before told you in one of my savage moods, his enmity is dire satanic!"
"So they were, so they were, my dear," said my father, complacently, "but for some reasons we must always treat their memory with a certain respect. They were God's people, remember, in the absence of a better, and their history is written in this book, which we must all revere." "A very great people, surely," said Mr. Bainrothe, "and destined to be so again. Don't you think so, Miriam?"
If thoughtless, if unrefined according to my views of good breeding, she was still young, and vivacious, and perhaps kind-hearted; besides this, sufficiently well pleased with herself to be generous to one who could no longer be her rival. Her approach was heralded by a note from Mr. Bainrothe, full of his characteristic, guileful sophistry and cool impertinence.
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