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"On the contrary, let us avoid her by every means in our power," said De Forest, imperturbably, walking Bell off in the opposite direction. "I never choose pearls when I may have diamonds. There's Miss Vernor. We'll go and speak with her." "But I don't want to," objected Bell, crossly. "I am not at all as fond of Miss Vernor as you are."
"Naturally not," answered De Forest, pursuing his way undisturbed. "Men always like girls better than girls do. I appreciate your feelings. But she's got that good-looking young minister with her. You like him. All feminine souls incline to clergymen next to officers. Buttons first; then surplices." "Undoubtedly," assented her companion. "Miss Vernor, your humble servant."
Don't you think, Miss Vernor, you might try to divert my mind from dwelling too cruelly on Miss Masters' defalcation by showing me what Mr. Hardcastle's grand intellect has devised for my entertainment? That bonfire yonder has a sort of cannibalistic look about it suggestive of dancing negroes and unmentionable feasts behind the flames. Shall we inspect it nearer?"
"At last?" repeated that gentleman as he joined the group, or rather paused just beyond it, surveying Gerald with a critical glance which seemed to take in accurately at one swift sweep every least detail of her dress. "My watch stands at the minute, Miss Vernor." "And here come the horses," added Phebe.
I care for nothing, I know nothing, but that I love her with every pulse of my being and that everything else has been a hideous dream, from which she may wake me into blissful morning with a single word!" I held him off at arm's-length and looked at him gravely. "You have told her, you mean, of your engagement to Miss Vernor?" "The whole story! I have given it up I have thrown it to the winds.
Halloway stood near Gerald in the crowd, but he did not attempt to join her until the raft reached the pier and was made fast. Then he quietly went to her and offered his arm. De Forest stepped up at the same moment. "Miss Vernor, will you condescend to accept of my valuable escort home?" "I beg your pardon," interrupted Denham, "I am Miss Vernor's escort to-night." De Forest stood still.
"Ah, because as a clergyman you must be." "No; simply because it happens to be my nature. One has one's individual characteristics, you know, quite independently of one's profession." "Yes, in other professions; but in yours " "But we are men first, Miss Vernor, afterward clergymen. Why may we not keep our distinct idiosyncrasies, even in our clerical uniform?"
"You called it a 'summons, I remember." "I was a great fool! It's a release!" "From your engagement?" "From everything! The letter, of course, is from Mr. Vernor. He desires to let me know at the earliest moment that his daughter, informed for the first time a week before of what had been expected of her, positively refuses to be bound by the contract or to assent to my being bound.
"I believe I would have loved her if, if Gerald Vernor had not come here when she did." "Oh, Denham!" "Yes, Soeur Angélique. It is a humiliating confession, is it not, that one has wilfully thrown away something that perhaps one might have had, for something that one knows one can never have? It is sheerest folly. And to do it with one's eyes open is the maddest folly of all.
I don't believe she was ever hurried so out of an attack before." "I'm afraid there's need of a broom or something here, Miss Vernor. This vase is in a thousand pieces." Gerald seized the hearth-brush and was on her knees by him in a moment. "The lamp, please, Mr. Halloway. Set it on the floor an instant."
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