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"Never! never!" cried Edith, starting up, her indignation for a moment getting the better of her fears: "with one so false and treacherous, so unprincipled and ungrateful, so base and revengeful, with such a man, with such a villain, never! no, never!" "I am a villain indeed, Edith," said Braxley, but with exemplary coolness; "all men are so.
"And from that moment you saw nothing more," rejoined Braxley. "The blood came from the veins of others; he was carried away alive, and almost unhurt. He is a captive, a captive like yourself. And why?
And so I goes back to Virginny, to see what Braxley could do for her; and there, d n him, he puts me up to a new rascality; which was nothing less than setting up my gal for the major's daughter, and making her a great heiress, and marrying of her.
The fact, indeed, even Braxley did not deny; but he averred, that the second instrument had been destroyed by the deceased himself, as soon as the confession of Atkinson had acquainted him with the existence of his own unfortunate daughter.
The story of Atkinson's return was confirmed by the man who had seen and recognised him, but who knew nothing of the cause of his visit; and Braxley declared he had already taken steps to ferret him out, and had good hopes through his means of recovering the lost heiress.
Now, I do hold that Braxley to be a rascal, a precocious rascal, sir! and, I rather reckon, thar war lying and villiany at the bottom of that will; and I hope you'll live to see the truth of it."
"No, no," said Edith, earnestly, and then added in a low voice, "I dreamed of Richard Braxley!" "Curse him!" muttered the youth, with tones of bitter passion: "it is to him we owe all that now afflicts us, poverty and exile, our distresses and difficulties, our fears and our dangers.
"Kill her!" cried Roland "Would that twenty bullets had pierced her heart, rather than she should have fallen alive into the hands of Braxley! Miserable wretch that I am! what can I do to save her? We will rescue her, Nathan; we will seek assistance; we will pursue the ravisher; it is not yet too late. Speak to me I shall go distracted: what must we do? what can we do?"
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