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Riten stood sobbing at the foot of the stairs. "Hush!" said Mr. Vosburgh, sternly. "Each one obey me. Out through the area door instantly." Across this he also let down a heavy bar, and, taking his daughter's hand, he hurried her to the fence, removed the boards, and, when all had passed through, replaced them. Mr.
You may esteem yourself fortunate if Miss Vosburgh ever permits you to feel yourself to be her equal." "Why, how so?" a little irritably. "Because if a man has brains and discernment the more he sees of her the more will he be inclined to doubt his equality." Merwyn smiled in a rather superior way, and, with a light laugh, said: "I understand, Strahan.
Turning quickly to note its effect on the girl, Mr. Vosburgh caught the coquettish maid in the act of making a grimace at her much-tormented suitor. Sally's face again became scarlet, and in embarrassed haste she began to clear the table. Barney was retiring slowly, evidently wishing for an interview with his elusive charmer before he should return to his present employers, and Mr.
Before he could speak, she exclaimed, "Ah! there is his ring;" and she rushed toward the door, paused, came back, and said, blushingly, "Papa, you had better admit him." Mr. Vosburgh smilingly complied. The young fellow appeared in almost as bad a plight as when he had come in on Monday night and gone away with bitter words on his lips. He was gaunt from fatigue and long mental strain.
His course and spirit, however, set her at rest in regard to his visits to Marian Vosburgh, and she felt that there was scarcely the slightest danger that he would compromise himself by serious attentions to the daughter of an obscure American official. Willard returned from his brief absence, and was surprised at his eager anticipation of another interview with Marian.
But what has all this to do with the sacred instinct, the pure, unbounded love which compels me to seek you as my wife?" "You have spoken such words to another," she said, in a low tone. "No, never such words as I speak to you. I could not have spoken them, for then I was too young and immature to feel them. I did love Miss Vosburgh as sincerely as I now respect and esteem her.
Vosburgh shared in Marian's deep solicitude and interest. It was evident that their humble guests, who took seats deferentially near the door, had been house-servants and not coarse plantation slaves, and in answer to Mr. Vosburgh's questions they spoke in a better vernacular than many of their station could employ.
Vosburgh spoke quite freely of the dangerous elements rapidly developing at the North, and warned his host that, in his opinion, the critical period of the struggle was approaching. Merwyn's grave, troubled face and extreme reticence in respect to his own course made an unfavorable impression, yet he was acting characteristically.
"It may be," she thought, "that only my presence can restrain him in his madness; for worse than madness it is to risk all his future prospects in the South just when our arms are crowned with victories which will soon fulfil our hopes. His infatuation with that horrid Miss Vosburgh is the secret of it all."
From the hospital I will go direct to police headquarters, and stipulate as to my service, for I shall serve in my own way, and then, if there is no pressing duty, I will report to you again." Mr. Vosburgh sprung up and wrung the young fellow's hand as he said: "We have done you great wrong. I, too, beg your pardon. But more than all the city to me is my duty to the general government.
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