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Arabella had written to Waife from the Continent, for the first half-year pretty often, and somewhat sanguinely, as to the chance of Losely's ultimate reformation. Then the intervals of silence became gradually more prolonged, and the letters more brief.
Darrell was not there; the place was solitary; but the opposite door was open also. Losely's fine ear caught the sound of a slight movement of a footstep in the room just below, to which that opposite door admitted. In an instant the robber glided within the chamber closed and locked the door by which he had entered, retaining the key about his person. The next stride brought him to the hearth.
RUGGE. "Sir, if she can be bound to me legally for three years, I would give L100. I did offer to Waife L50, to you, sir, L100." Losely's eyes flashed, and his hands opened restlessly. "But, confound it, where is she? Have you no clew?"
The poor young man had buoyed himself up with delighted expectations of the result of Sophy's prolonged residence under Darrell's roof; he had persuaded his reason that when Darrell had been thus enabled to see and judge of her for himself, he would be irresistibly attracted towards her; that Innocence, like Truth, would be mighty and prevail; Darrell was engaged in the attempt to clear William Losely's name and blood from the taint of felony; Alban was commissioned to negotiate with Jasper Losely on any terms that would remove all chance of future disgrace from that quarter.
Crane," said the manager, striding in. "You don't, perhaps, call me to mind by name; but oho! not gone, sir! Do I intrude prematurely?" "No, I have done; good-day, my dear Mrs. Crane." "Stay, Jasper. I remember you now, Mr. Rugge; take a chair." She whispered a few words into Losely's ear, then turned to the manager, and said aloud, "I saw you at Mr.
But still it is due even to Jasper to state here that, in Losely's recent design to transfer Sophy from Mr. Waife's care to that of Madame Caumartin, the Sharper harboured no idea of a villany so execrable as the character of the Parisienne led the jealous Arabella to suspect.
If you trouble me again, I shall apply to the police." Never from female hand had Jasper Losely's pride received such a slap on its face. He was literally stunned. Mechanically he hastened to Arabella Crane; and having no longer any object in concealment, but, on the contrary, a most urgent craving for sympathy, he poured forth his indignation and wrongs.
He was silent his mind hesitated; would it not be well would it not be just as safe to his own peace, and to that of the poor child, whom, no matter what her parentage, Darrell could not but desire to free from the claim set up by so bold a ruffian, to gratify Losely's wish, and let him remain in England, upon an allowance that would suffice for his subsistence?
I requested her at least to suffer me to show to you a paper containing Jasper Losely's confession of a conspiracy to poison her mind against you some years ago a conspiracy so villanously ingenious that it would have completely exonerated any delicate and proud young girl from the charge of fickleness in yielding to an impulse of pique and despair.
Jasper was sent abroad by his maternal uncle, at his father's prayer; sent to a commercial house in France, in which the uncle obtained him a situation. In fact, the young man had been despatched to France under another name, in order to save him from the obloquy which his father had brought upon his own. Soon came William Losely's trial and sentence.
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