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"O, come!" cried Frank. "Your confidence? It was rosy but unconsenting. Your confidence, indeed? Now, look! This is what I must say, Weir, for it concerns your safety and good character, and therefore my honour as your friend. You say I wormed myself into your confidence. Wormed is good. But what have I done?
Of me, she knew nothing but my bodily favour; she was drawn to me as stones fall to the earth; the laws that rule the earth conducted her, unconsenting, to my arms; and I drew back at the thought of such a bridal, and began to be jealous for myself. It was not thus that I desired to be loved. And then I began to fall into a great pity for the girl herself.
But, as they gave him no definite answer, there was nothing for it but to remind them that he had agreed to go and soon. Downcast faces listened; a most unconsenting silence answered. "Well, are you willing?" said he at last. "Is Her Majesty the Empress-Dowager agreeable to receiving me as British Minister?"
She flung herself prone upon the bed, and lay there, holding the psalm-book in her hands for hours, for the more part in a mere stupor of unconsenting pleasure and unreasoning fear. The fear was superstitious; there came up again and again in her memory Dandie's ill-omened words, and a hundred grisly and black tales out of the immediate neighbourhood read her a commentary on their force.
"Then you consent, your excellency?" cried Valdez joyously. "I neither consent nor refuse. You must go to a more final authority than mine for an answer, young man." "But you are willing she should follow where her heart leads?" "But certainly." "Then she is mine," cried Valdez. "I am not," replied the girl indignantly over her shoulder. Megales turned her till her unconsenting eyes met his.
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