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Updated: April 30, 2025
There were several who might have done so, some above Raoul in authority, some below; but I was certain that not one of them was an intimate friend of Count Godensky's. I believed now that what I had hoped was true. He was "bluffing." He wanted me to flounder into some admission, and to make him a promise in order to save the man I loved.
If I could make him believe the whole thing a monstrous plot of Godensky's to revenge himself on a woman who'd refused him, by cleverly implicating her in her lover's ruin, by throwing guilt upon her while she was, in reality, innocent! If I could suggest that to Raoul now, while his ears were open, I might hold his love against the world, no matter what happened afterward.
I asked, twisting my handkerchief, as I should have liked to twist Godensky's neck, till he had no more breath or wickedness left in him. "Mr. Dundas tried his best to convince the Juge d'Instruction, a most clever and experienced man, that if he had, as an old friend, brought you a present of diamonds, it was something entirely different, and therefore far removed from this case.
Now, will that assurance make it easier for you to put your whole soul into your part to-night?" "If you will accept that box," I said, letting him kiss my hand, and feeling inclined to kiss his. Then I drove home, with my heart singing, for I felt almost sure that I had trumped Godensky's last trick now. When I reached home Miss Forrest was there. She had brought the diamonds in the brocade bag.
If I could have had you with me, I should have packed her off by herself, alone, that I might be alone with you. Oh, Raoul, it isn't possible you believe that I could lie to you for Godensky's sake a man like that! If I'd cared for him, why shouldn't I have accepted him instead of you? Could I have changed so quickly, do you think?" "I don't think; I'm not able to think.
He shut the door, and I almost breathed aloud the words that burst from my heart, "Thank Heaven!" "I must leave you," I told him. And I was kind for a moment, capricious no longer, because, though the treaty had been restored, I was going to open the cage of Godensky's vengeance, and I was afraid of him. "I may come to you as soon as I'm free?" Raoul asked. "Yes.
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