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She followed him quite to the door, and here he said in a voice that was husky despite his efforts to prevent it: "Miss Lane, Morgianna, I had him paroled for your sake. He can remain in the village." He was gone before she could make any response. His men were mustered at peep of day and marched away to Baltimore.
Fernando still sat gazing into the fire and saying to himself: "Oh, if it could have been, if it could have been!" A young woman does a rash thing when she rejects such a warm, manly heart as that of Fernando Stevens. Not all men are capable of such unselfish devotion as his, and Morgianna little dreamed how much she was casting aside.
Burrel explained that from the farthest point of Duck Island the vessel had been sighted, and that there was no longer any question of her destination. Captain Lane rose to go down to the village, where the greatest excitement prevailed. Turning to Morgianna, he asked: "Will you be afraid to remain here, my gem o' the sea?" "No, father." The captain went and quieted the people.
He had thought of her only as a gay, frivolous girl, witty, brilliant and beautiful; but the scenes of death, the siege and carnage had shown him a new Morgianna; it was Morgianna the heroine. She made several efforts to speak before she could fully control herself.
I hope you will let me send a sergeant with a dozen men to convey you both to a place of safety." She assented, and he left. Her face was still white, her chin was quivering, and her eyes were growing moist. "What's the matter, Morgianna?" asked Captain Lane. She did not venture an answer, but running to her own room, fell weeping on the couch.
"Morgianna," Fernando said. "Morgianna? no she is the girl at Mariana, isn't she?" "Yes." "I didn't hear him mention her name." "They are not married yet?" "No." "Perhaps I was mistaken after all," said Fernando thoughtfully. "May be she don't care for him." Then Fernando sighed again and gazed into the smouldering fire. After several minutes more, he said: "Sukey, she must be in love with him."
"Here, father!" and, clothed in spotless white, looking like some celestial being just reached this earth, Morgianna entered the room. "What do you want, father?" she asked, paying no heed to the lieutenant, who had risen to his feet with a most gracious smile and bow. "Morgianna, Lieutenant Matson announces that the English frigate Xenophon is coming to destroy our town and kill our people.
Whenever he was in danger of "making a bad break," Lord Kildee, who was the lion of the hour, was at hand to aid him, and with consummate grace and ease helped him through the worst difficulties. A few glasses of champagne made Fernando bolder. At last he met that beautiful creature whom he had seen alight from the carriage and was introduced to Miss Morgianna Lane.
Fernando looked sadly into the smouldering bivouac and heaved a sigh. Almost five years had elapsed since he had seen Morgianna, and he had not heard a word from her since he left her in the great stone house on the hill that night, she laughing at his misery. After a long silence Fernando asked: "Is he married?" "Who?" asked Sukey. "Faith, the captain's absent minded," put in Terrence.
"Morgianna, you must not, yours is no common life " he began. In the excitement of the moment he almost forgot himself. She was about to answer, when he said, "Noble woman! do not, for Heaven's sake, run needless danger." They hurried the wounded from the burning building. Another house, lower down the hill, was also on fire.
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