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The first feeling which Isa had was a sudden shock of surprise. She was not so much astonished at the revelation of Charlton's feeling as at the discovery of her own. With Albert's abrupt going away, all her heart and hope seemed to be going too. She had believed her interest in Charlton to be disinterested until this moment.
"Don't listen to him, uncle Rolf!" said Fleda, going round to her uncle, and making, as she passed, a most warning impression upon Charlton's arm "don't mind what he says that young gentleman has been among the Mexican ladies till he has lost an eye for a really proper complexion. Look at me! do I look pale and thin? I was paid a most brilliant compliment the other day upon my roses.
In getting into the coach again he chanced to throw back the buffalo-robe and thus exposed Charlton's handcuffs. Helen glanced at them, and then at Albert's face. She shivered a little, and grew red. There was no alternative but to ride thus face to face with Charlton for six miles.
But in all the tangled maze of motive that, by a resolution of force, produced the whole which men called Plausaby the Land-shark, there was not wanting an element of generosity, and that element of generosity had much to do with Charlton's appointment. And Albert took it kindly. I am afraid that he was just a little less observant of the transactions in which Plausaby engaged after that.
People were seen on the shore, though no habitations were visible, and Captain Bertram wished to communicate with them. While the frigate was hove to, to leeward of the island, two boats were sent on shore under Mr Charlton's command. Ben went in one of them.
Rossitur was persuaded, more times than one, to put herself in her plainest remaining French silk, and entertain the whole party, with the addition of one or two of Charlton's friends, at her Queechy farm-house. Fleda enjoyed it all with the quick spring of a mind habitually bent to the patient fulfilment of duty, and habitually under the pressure of rather sobering thoughts.
Jane stood silently by, listening with a feeling of depression which she could not have accounted for, if she would and would not if she could. Not that she wished her father to die; simply that Charlton's confidence in his long life forced her to face the only alternative bringing him round to accept Victor Dorn. At her father's next remark she began to listen with a high beating heart.
The deputy-marshal wanted to stretch his legs a little, and so, trusting partly to his knowledge of Charlton's character, partly to handcuffs, and partly to his convenient revolver, he leaped out of the coach and stepped to the door of the bar-room just to straighten his legs, you know, and get a glass of whisky "straight" at the same time.
And you call yourself an intelligent man!" "I'll never do it again," said Hastings, pleading, but smiling, too Charlton's way of talking delighted him. "You think this is a joke," said Charlton, shaking his bullet head. "Have you any affairs to settle? If you have, send for your lawyer in the morning." Fear the Great Fear suddenly laid its icy long fingers upon the throat of the old man.
In an untouched chamber at Rodmarton were found as many as thirteen bodies, and in the eastern chamber at Charlton's Abbott there were twelve. With the bodies lay pottery, vases, and implements of flint and bone.
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