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To convert him would be a real task, a test of one's fervor and vision. Samuel resolved suddenly upon diplomacy. "They've been very good to me," he said. "I dare say," responded the other indifferently. "And Dr. Vince is really a very good man," he went on. "Humph!" commented the burglar; and then he added quickly, "You haven't been telling him anything about me?" Oh, no!" exclaimed the boy.
Among the many illustrious personages, religious and secular, who were present on this occasion, Fra Luca mentions "Messer Galeazzo Sforza di San Severino, my own special patron," to whom he presented the beautiful illuminated copy of his treatise, now in the Ambrosiana, the Prior of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the doctors and astrologers, Ambrogio da Rosate, Pirovano, Cusani and Marliani, and many well-known jurists, councillors, architects, and engineers, including Leonardo da Vinci, "our fellow-citizen of Florence, who, in sculpture and painting alike, justifies his name and surpasses" i.e. vince = conquers "all other masters."
It was a fight as if between a lioness and a tigress, their dead cubs near-by. As most men in the navy knew, Captain Vince was a most dangerous swordsman. In duel or in warfare, no man yet had been able to stand before him. With skilled arm and eye and with every muscle of his body trained, his sword sought a vital spot in his opponent.
'Why did you try to snub me just now? 'Did I? 'You mustn't again. It hurts me. I'm a sensitive man. Diffident. Shy. Miss Warden, will you marry me? Ruth had determined that nothing should shake her from her icy detachment, but this did. She stopped with a gasp, and stared at him. Mr Vince reassured her.
He might help the poor at last. He and Miss Gladys would devote their lives to this. Perhaps some day he might even own the mill where the children worked, and he would be able to send them all to school! And he would be a member of the Lockman family, in a way he might even have some influence over Master Albert! And Ethel and Dr. Vince how happy they would be when they heard of his good fortune!
What Mistress Kate Bonnet might say or do; what she might like or might not like; what her ideas about honour might be or might not be, it would be a very different thing when he, her imperious lover, should hold the end of that noose in his hand. She might weep, she might rave, but come what would, she was the man's daughter, and she would be Lady Vince.
How did you get possession of the letter you brought me, and what do you know of Captain Vince?" "I can tell you nothing," he said, without looking at her, "until you tell me what I ought to know about Captain Vince." And as he said this he could not help wondering in his heart that there were no signs of grief about her. "Ought to know?" she repeated, regarding him earnestly.
"No, I didn't know it." "What did you suppose I was doing all that time while you were watching?" Samuel said nothing for a minute. "Why did you pick out Dr. Vince?" he asked suddenly. "Him? Why not? I knew his house." "But a clergyman! Does it seem quite fair?" "Oh, that's all right," laughed the other. "He's got a-plenty. It don't have to come out of his salary, you know." "Why not?"
It strangled him, and she slipped her hand under the pillow and raised his head. It was the nearness of her that revived him. "I I'm weaker than a girl," he whispered. "Vince I mean the thug, hit me a lot harder than he needed to. What was I saying? oh, yes; the papers. Will you will you go over there in the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard?
She quickly told her tale, and he started upright in his chair as he heard it. "Do you mean," he exclaimed, "that that pirate, after whom I sent the Badger, is your father? It amazes me! The similarity of names did not strike me; I never imagined any connection between you and the captain of that pirate ship." "That's what Captain Vince said when I last saw him," remarked Kate.
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