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Again and again he fills the goblet, and quaffs the foaming champagne. He fascinates everybody by his rare eloquence his inimitable wit; Mr. Goldworthy congratulates himself on his good fortune in having secured so charming so talented a son-in-law. The dark eyes of the Chevalier sparkle almost fearfully; his superb countenance is flushed with wine and passion.
Goldworthy, much excited "can you think for a moment that I suspect you or these gentlemen, of an act so base and contemptible? Let the package go to the devil, sooner than its loss should occasion the least uneasiness to any of us. Come, my dear friends, let's say no more about it."
The Chevalier, then, was a man of a thousand; elegant in his carriage, superbly graceful in every movement, possessing a form of perfect symmetry, and a countenance faultlessly handsome, no wonder that he captivated the hearts of many lovely damsels, and made no unfavorable impression upon the mind of the fair Alice Goldworthy, whom he had casually met in polished society, and whose admiration he had enlisted, as much by the charms of inimitable wit as by the graces of his matchless person.
Goldworthy and the ladies have gone to the theatre, and have not yet returned; and as to the other servants, they have all gone to bed." "That's well," remarked Tickels "now, Mike, this man will conceal you in some safe place. If the business can be done to-night, do it; if not, defer it until a favorable opportunity presents itself. You know all the arrangements; therefore I need not repeat them.
Goldworthy warmly pressed the Chevalier's hand at parting, and said to him "To-morrow, my dear sir, you will be my son-in-law. Be kind to my Alice, she is a good girl, and worthy of you. God bless you both!
There, in the centre of the room, confused and abashed, stood the nude form of the Chevalier; and there, upon his breast, did Mr. Goldworthy behold the accursed brand of crime which had horrified his daughter, and elicited her piercing scream. "Convicted felon!" gasped the old gentleman, almost disbelieving the evidence of his own senses.
Goldworthy, growing more and more indignant at the other's impudent assurance. "Hark'ee, sir," he continued, "the mystery which has always surrounded you, has been anything but favorable to your reputation, for honest men are seldom reluctant to disclose all that concerns their past career and present pursuits.
Goldworthy surveyed, with a smiling aspect, the sociable group which surrounded him, little did he suspect that the man who on the morrow was to become his son-in-law who was to lead to the altar his only child, that pure and gentle girl little, we say, did he suspect that the Chevalier Duvall was in reality a branded villain of the blackest dye a man whose soul was stained by the commission of almost every crime on the dark catalogue of guilt.
The necessity of young ladies looking beneath their beds, before retiring to rest. We have seen in what manner Jew Mike escaped from the house of Mr. Goldworthy, bearing off the insensible form of Fanny Aubrey; but as the reader may be curious to learn how the ruffian gained entrance to the house, and to the chamber of the young lady, we shall briefly explain.
Goldworthy, at last, begins to regard him with a feeling akin to suspicion. "Who can this man be," he mentally asks himself "that talks so familiarly of every species of crime and villainy? Is he a fitting husband for my pure and gentle daughter? Can he have been a participant in those lawless adventures which he so eloquently describes?
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