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For Nora did not look like a person who would bear roughness or rudeness from any one. "Then are you my cousin, too?" he asked, suddenly struck by an idea that sent a gleam of pleasure to his eye. "Oh, no," said Nora, demurely. "I'm no relation. It is only Janetta her mother was Mr. Brand's father's cousin. But that was not my mother Janetta and I are stepsisters."
Her thoughts turned to another phase of Brand's character upon which also she was beginning to have doubts. She did not see many people, but a few bits of talk had reached her ears which made her wonder if the man whose character she had believed to be almost ideally fine and noble were not after all a devotee of sinister pleasures.
As we could not tell what sort of savages those on board the canoe might be, we agreed that it would be wise to be prepared, if necessary, to meet them as enemies. Accordingly, we put ourselves under Mr Brand's orders. He took the musket, and Jerry and I were armed with our fowling-pieces Ben and the doctor providing themselves with hatchets and knives and long pointed sticks.
Brand must have that double pleasure, too, when he feels all his faculties at work and knows that he is creating something that is beautiful, as you will feel that you are doing something good." His face darkened and his eyes flashed at the sound of Brand's name. She felt that he stiffened, mind and body, into hostility. "Pardon me," he said curtly, "if I am not pleased with the comparison.
And all you religious people look down on folks like me." "Then I'm not religious, for I don't look down on folks like you at all," said Janetta, calmly adopting Mrs. Brand's vocabulary. "Well, you ought to. I'm not a very good sort myself." Janetta smiled, but made no other answer: And presently Juliet Brand remarked
That's the most I can say, until the time comes for me to tell you the whole story. But you shall know it sometime, Penelope. Good-bye." Early in the second week of Brand's absence his secretary had another call from Hugh Gordon.
You shall see that there is no harm in him." Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus, sat watching the same lime-kiln that had been the scene of Ethan Brand's solitary and meditative life, before he began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years, as we have seen, had now elapsed, since that portentous night when the IDEA was first developed.
On a nearer inspection, we saw by their emaciated looks and the battered condition of their canoe that they must have undergone much hardship. Perhaps they thought us rather a rough set for Englishmen, for our clothes were somewhat tattered, and Mr Brand's and the doctor's, and Ben's beards, whiskers, and moustaches were of considerable length, and not a little tangled.
There did not seem to have been more than a little concealment, a little flirting, a little folly; but Janetta was aghast to think of the extent to which Nora might have been compromised, and indignant at Cuthbert Brand's culpable thoughtlessness if it was nothing worse. "What people have said of the Brands is true," she declared vehemently to herself.
"Well," he said more cheerfully, "since this is all you can tell us, we shall have to wait with what patience we can for Mr. Brand's return. But I will tell you frankly, Mr. Gordon, that I, at least, have confidence in you and accept your assurances." He did not tell them, however, by what course of reasoning he had quickly come to this conclusion.
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