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Updated: September 10, 2025
The trader's eyes met his in a long, searching glance, then turned to where the unconscious, figure of the white woman lay, supported in the arms of Melanie, who, with affrighted eyes, gazed appealingly to them both. He reached out his hand to the other man. 'That's all right, Laurance. Let us go outside and talk. See, your wife has fainted, but Melanie will see to her.
General Laurance lighted his cigar, and, standing before his son, answered coldly: "I beg you to recollect that my resources are not quite inexhaustible, and last year when I gave that Chicago property to you, I explained the necessity of curbing your reckless extravagance.
Peleg Peterson of Whitefield, Co., . Hoping that you will not add to the injury you have already inflicted, by further complicity in this audacious scheme of fraud and blackmail, "I am, dear sir, respectfully An afflicted father, RENÉ LAURANCE. "P.S. Should you desire to communicate with me, my address for several months will be, Care of the American Legation, Paris."
Laurance, that the universe holds a grave deep enough to keep you quiet in your coffin if vain heartless men profaned her sacred widowhood by such utterances as you presume to offer me?
Laurance, tapping the arm of the minister with her gilded fan. "Do you refer to the contretemps of the masks at the Grand Ball?" "No, something connected with Madame Orme.
Mother, do with your child as seems best to your dear heart." She was very white, but her face was firm, and the fidelity of her purpose was printed in her sad eyes. "God bless my sweet, faithful, trusting child!" Mrs. Laurance could not restrain her tears, and Mr. Palma shaded his eyes with his hand. "My little girl, make your choice. Decide between us."
Laurance links me with the holy associations that cluster about a mother's or a sister's sacred features; reviving the earlier years, when he offered at the shrine of friendship, of honour, and of genius, tributes too sincere to admit the glozing varnish of fulsome, fashionable adulation, which degrades alike the lips that utter and the ears that listen.
From the moment when Amy Robsart entered, Cuthbert Laurance felt a strange magnetic thrill dart through every fibre of his frame; his sluggish pulse stirred, and as her mesmeric brown eyes, luminous, overmastering, met his, he drew his breath in quick gasps, and his heart in its rapid throbbing seemed to pour liquid fire into the bounding arteries.
'I suppose neither of them is to blame, he thought. 'How were either of them to know that I was not drowned?... And then poor little Nell had only ten shillings a week to live upon until I came back. Still, he would have been better pleased had Harry Laurance been a stranger to him no man cares to know his successor in such a matter.
Of my proud unsullied name I am fastidiously careful, and can even you demand or hope a nobler one than that I now lay at your feet?" "The name of Laurance? Certainly I think it would satisfy even my ambition." He felt the pretty hand grow suddenly cold in his grasp, and saw the thin delicate nostril expand slightly, as she fixed her brilliant eyes on his, and smiled.
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