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"The Cap'n, sir," answered the Bo'sun, "the Cap'n is likewise hearty." "And Lady Cleone is she well, is she happy?" "Why, sir, she's as 'appy as can be expected under the circumstances." "What circumstances?" "Love, sir." "Love!" exclaimed Barnabas, "why, Bo'sun what do you mean?" "I mean, sir, as she's fell in love at last "How do you know who with where is she ?"
"Yes, mam, all right, mam, you jest leave 'im to me," replied Master Milo with his superb air, "don't you worrit on 'is account, 'e'll be all right along o' me, mam, 'e will." "For that," cried the Duchess, catching him by two of his gleaming buttons, "for that I mean to kiss you, Giant!" The which, despite his reproving blushes, she did forthwith. And Cleone and Barnabas?
"To-day I tried to write to Cleone to tell her everything, but I couldn't." "So you decided to come and tell me first, which was very nice of you," nodded the Duchess, "oh, very right and proper! Well, sir, I'm listening." "First, then," said Barnabas, coming to a halt, and looking down at her steadfast-eyed, "you must know that my real name is Barty."
So Cleone raised her head and looked at him, sighing a little, blushing a little, trembling a little, with eyes shy yet unashamed, the eyes of a maid. "Oh, Barnabas," she murmured, "I am here on my knees. You wanted me on my knees, didn't you, Barnabas? So I am here to ask you " But now her dark lashes fluttered and fell, hiding her eyes from him, " to beg you to marry me.
And, in a while, looking down at Cleone where she knelt in his embrace, beholding all the charm and witchery of her, the high, proud carriage of her head, the grace and beauty of her shapely body, soft and warm with life and youth, and love, Barnabas sighed for very happiness; whereupon she, glancing up and meeting this look, must needs droop her lashes at him, and blush, and tremble, all in a moment.
Langton is as wise as Sibyl, and as good; and will live, if my wishes can prolong life, till she shall in time be as old. But she differs in this, that she has not scattered her precepts in the wind, at least not those which she bestowed upon you. 'The two Wartons just looked into the town, and were taken to see Cleone, where, David* says, they were starved for want of company to keep them warm.
He is very proud of his son, it seems, and he even showed me a letter this son had written him from the 'George' inn at Southwark. Ha! Joan Beverley was to have married an ugly old wretch of a marquis, and John Barty is handsome still. But an inn-keeper, hum!" "So that was why my mother ran away, madam?" "And Wilfred Chichester knows of this, and will tell Cleone, of course!"
Oh, yes, indeed, sir, she detests me and quite naturally. You see, we were girls together, she's six months my junior, and has never let me forget it, and the Duke God rest him admired us both, and, well, I married him. And so Cleone has actually refused poor Jerningham, the yellow-maned minx!" "Why, then you didn't know of it?" inquired Barnabas. "Oh, Innocent! of course I didn't.
Because I love you, Barnabas, and because, whatever else you may be, I know you are a man. So if you really want me, dear Barnabas, why take me because I am just your woman." "Want you!" he repeated, "want you oh my Cleone!" and, with a broken, inarticulate cry, he leaned down and would have caught her fiercely against his heart; but she, ever mindful of his wound, stayed him with gentle hand.
"The one you gave Cleone, which she had no right to exact as I told her " "But, madam " "Oh, she confessed to me all about it, and how you had tried to pay Ronald's debts for him out of your own pocket, which was very magnificent but quite absurd." "Yes," sighed Barnabas, "so now I am determined to free him from Chichester first " "By dispossessing Chichester?" "Yes, madam."
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