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"Avoiding, if possible, all exposure of you," resumed Enderby, "but not shrinking from the full statement of the facts, if that should prove necessary to Hope's justification. If this gentleman be honourable, he will decline attending my mother, and go away more willingly than he came.
Dusautoy told me, my dear; poor Mr. Hope's distress betrayed him, and Mr. Dusautoy was anxious I should Genevieve did not let her finish, but exclaiming, 'I did not expect this from you, madame, gave way to a shower of tears. 'My dear child, do we not all feel you the more one with ourselves for this reluctance? said Albinia, caressing her fondly.
This could not be done by telling him of Hope's present life. These considerations flashed through his mind, and as swiftly determined his answer. "Oh, I've known her some time. Not long ago I did her a service for which she is grateful. Did you know she was out in this country searching for you?" "Out here? In Kansas?" "Sure; that isn't much of a trip for a spirited girl.
So he pocketed the half-sovereign, and bought his little Grace a neck-handkerchief, blue with white spots; and so this unlucky man and his child fought their way from west to east, till they reached that place where we introduced them to the reader. That was an era in their painful journey, because until then Hope's only anxiety was to find food and some little comfort for his child.
"Oh!" cried Walter, and hid his face in his hands. As for Mary, she put her hand gently but quietly on Hope's shoulder, as if to protect him from such insults. "Why, children," said Hope, pleased at their sympathy, but too manly to hunt for it, "it was more than he thought the information worth, and I assure you it was a blessed boon to me.
Then there was the reference to her own individual fate; and was it not through the self-medium she saw all these people in so strange a light? with Hope's lamp dashed down at her feet, and extinguished at the very moment when, by the communication of her father, she thought she had the means of recruiting it with a store of oil never to be exhausted till possession was accomplished.
Don't look so scared! It's something you'll like; it is, really. And you're bound to hear it sooner or later, so it may as well be now. Why not?" But Hope's nerves were stretched to snapping point, and she shrank visibly. After all, she was very young, and there was that about this man that terrified her. "No," she said hurriedly. "No; I would rather not.
Even this humble proposal was declined, though Hope's cheeks burned with shame as he made it. He groaned aloud, and his head dropped on his breast. His eye fell on the will lying on the ground; he went and picked it up, and handed it respectfully to Bartley. Bartley stared, took it, and bowed his head an inch or two in acknowledgment of the civility.
The colony of Macao is scarcely more important than one of Anthony Hope's imaginary kingdoms, but for the fact that it is on the map, for the area of Portugal's foothold is not more than two or three miles in length, and a half-mile to a mile in width; it is merely the rocky promontory of the tip end of the island of Heung Shan.
Hope's case, to trace that act to any of the causes which, in almost every other instance, were supposed to account for conversions to Catholicism.
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