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Updated: May 5, 2025
Waring, and the two women sat down in the arbor, and at once were at ease and at home with each other. Bruno came up, eyed and smelled the new-comer, and snuggled down on her skirts to go to sleep. "He vouches for me," she said nodding. "You must take me at his valuation." "He makes no mistakes." "Nor do you, I suspect. That reminds me, Miss Swendon.
But the choice offered me was between right and financial ruin on one side, and a fortune and neutrality on the other. It would be impossible," in a tone which suddenly became careless and matter of fact, "for any man to come in contact with a nature as absolutely honest as yours, Miss Swendon, and not be influenced by it.
Was he so brutal as to talk to any woman of her marriage with a man whom she had never seen? "You forget," he said coldly. "Miss Swendon owes no gratitude for money which was justly her own. William Laidley, too, was a weak, impure man the very last who should be allowed to stretch his hand out of his grave to control any woman's life. You should not hamper her with any such gratitude."
The captain colored: "I beg your pardon, Bruce: I did not know " "You have not intruded: you have not hurt me in the least," laying his hand for an instant on the captain's knee. "It is not a matter about which I have any soreness of feeling. The obstacle arose from circumstances: I am not in any sense guilty." Captain Swendon nodded and occupied himself with rebuckling his shoes.
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