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"Can't hold back any one," said Duff, with an oath. "We've got to make it to-morrow night. There's the devil of a trip before us. That big marsh portage is a heartbreaker, and there must be a dozen or fifteen of them awaiting us, and we're going to get through at least, I am." "All right," said Knight, with a quick flash of temper. "I'll stay with you, only I thought we might ease him a bit."
Half an hour later, Hildegarde was standing in the presence of Herr Givenaught. He heard her story, and said "I am sorry for you, my child, but I am very poor, I care nothing for bookish rubbish, I shall not be there." He said the hard words kindly, but they nearly broke poor Hildegarde's heart, nevertheless. When she was gone the old heartbreaker muttered, rubbing his hands
For the fact that it was this said thirty-first cousin, Mr d'Urberville, who had fallen in love with her, a gentleman not altogether local, whose reputation as a reckless gallant and heartbreaker was beginning to spread beyond the immediate boundaries of Trantridge, lent Tess's supposed position, by its fearsomeness, a far higher fascination that it would have exercised if unhazardous.
Half an hour later, Hildegarde was standing in the presence of Herr Givenaught. He heard her story, and said "I am sorry for you, my child, but I am very poor, I care nothing for bookish rubbish, I shall not be there." He said the hard words kindly, but they nearly broke poor Hildegarde's heart, nevertheless. When she was gone the old heartbreaker muttered, rubbing his hands
It was very dismal comfort those days. The Neukluk had become a young Mississippi, and the bar of the stream was now entirely covered. The wind blew furiously up the stream; and it was almost an unbelievable sight to behold one day a freighter sailing slowly and surely, impelled alone by the favoring wind, up the stream and over that riffle which hitherto had been the heartbreaker.
She complied willingly, and as the mischievous heartbreaker never forgot to pay an old score, the moment she was seated at the piano she began with "Hold the Fort," and singing every verse of that, followed it with "Pull for the Shore."
I soon noticed a man who was dancing with great assiduity, never stopping once tall, swarthy, lively a heartbreaker. The ladies clustered round him. "Can that be Solem down there dominating the crowd?" I thought. "Wouldn't you like to dance?" I asked Carpenter Nikolai. "Oh, no," he replied with a smile. "Then we can leave any time you like." "All right," he said and remained seated.
She laughed a happy little laugh as she answered: "Go along, Sir Heartbreaker. People down here have not forgotten auld lang syne and I dare say the rocking chair fleet will at once begin to commiserate me. But you girls had better watch out; he is a hopeless flirt. So beware!"
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