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"Oh, no, I assure you," she rejoined, with some confusion, "it is a mistake altogether. Both Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bainrothe are perfectly aware of your seclusion, and he, especially, recommended and contrived it." "There was contrivance, then; you admit that!" I said, impressively.
Take up the dialogue, dear Evelyn, for a few moments, while I go to superintend that elderly flirtation you speak of, and keep papa in order," and I left them abruptly. "It will all be paid in before then," I heard Mr. Bainrothe say, as I approached them, "and you could not have a safer investment. It is as sound as the Federal Government itself. Indestructible as the solar system."
"I will bring the papers," papa said, rising. "Excuse me for ten minutes," and I dropped into his empty seat by Mr. Bainrothe. "I hope I shall not interrupt your business meditations while papa is gone," I observed, breaking the silence first.
"Strange language from a captor to a captive mocking language, that I find unendurable! Let Mr. Gregory remain where he is until the extreme limit of the interval granted me by Basil Bainrothe as breathing-space before execution; and before hope expires in thick darkness then let him come and take what he will find of the victim of so much perfidy!"
How perfectly he played his part, and how cunningly Bainrothe had contrived to convey to me his menace real, or assumed for effect, I could not tell which, for my judgment spoke one language, my cowardice another! Yet, I confess, that the panic was complete, though I concealed it from the enemy.
But, perhaps you had an escort to the corner?" "No no no I came quite alone! Oh, for pity's sake, put me on my way and let me go! My business is most urgent!" I hesitated my heart sank. Had Bainrothe been before me to spirit the doctor away by some feigned message of need, of distress, to which no inclemency of weather could close that benevolent medical ear?
Austin following these, her darlings, to go with them in the principal mourning-coach, in which Mr. Bainrothe also found himself ensconced, by some diplomacy of his own, no doubt, all clad in sables, and with his polished aspect fixed in woe! After the funeral, Dr. Pemberton came up for a few minutes to my chamber.
Austin added: "Miriam is so well, and growing so fast, that I am afraid to see her take on care again, for fear of a check; and now that Mabel is partly weaned from her they are both happy to be separated;" or that Mr. Bainrothe carelessly interpolated: "Let the child go back, my dear Monfort, or you will spoil her again among you. She is developing splendidly at St.
Miss Monfort," he said; "will you not bid me a kind, a pardoning farewell?" "Oh, surely, Mr. Raymond; and let me beg that, when you are near me, you will come freely to my house. I shall be most happy to entertain you." And I gave him my hand, frankly. "One word more, Miss Monfort. Are you engaged to any other and more fortunate man than Mr. Bainrothe and myself?
Yet I could not move, nor speak, nor weep no wretchedness was ever more supreme than this cataleptic seizure. Evelyn was the first to break the transient silence. "Your path is a plain one, Claude Bainrothe; fulfill your contract, sealed with gold, and bear patiently your selected lot." "Evelyn, one word let it be sincere: do you hate and scorn me? Answer me as you would speak to your own soul."
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