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If she's trusted him enough to marry him, money won't stop her; if she thinks she's been deceived, YOU'LL never know it." The enthusiasm and conviction were so unlike Rushbrook's usual cynical toleration of the sex that Leyton stared at him. "That's odd," he returned. "That's what she says of you." "Of ME; you mean Somers?"
He looked on his merciful benefactors with bewildered tenderness. He kissed Mrs. Leyton's hand, then gently laid on his shoulder. He gazed about like one in a dream who dreaded to wake. He became faint and staggered. He was laid gently on a sofa, and Mr. and Mrs. Leyton left him. Food was shortly administered to him, and after a time, when his senses had become sufficiently collected, Mr.
Although Ben Van Vechten would not have dared to do a thing in direct opposition to his mother's commands, he was not ordinarily afraid of her, and he now listened impatiently, while she told him that Rosamond Leyton was not a fit associate for a young man like himself, "She was a sort of nobody, whom her brother had undertaken to educate," she said, "and though she might be rather pretty, she was low-born and vulgar, as any one could see."
Miss Nevil had returned to the Atlantic States with Mrs. Leyton. While rumors had played freely with the relations of Somers and the Signora as the possible cause of the rupture between him and Rushbrook, no mention had ever been made of the name of Miss Nevil. It was raining heavily one afternoon, when Mr. Rushbrook drove from his office to his San Francisco house.
That evening, as the brother and sister sat together in the parlor, the latter suddenly asked, "Who is that Rosamond Leyton, and what is she doing here?" Mr. Browning told her all he knew of the girl, and she continued, "Do you intend to educate her?" "Educate her!" said he "what made you think of that?"
Leyton were as much moved as the boy, who was bowed down with shame and penitence, to which hitherto he had been a stranger. At last the clergyman asked, "What could have induced you to commit such a crime?"
The man's arm was round the woman's waist; the woman was as he had suspected the one who had stood in the doorway, the Signora but the man was NOT Rushbrook. Mr. Leyton drew back this time in unaffected horror. It was none other than Jack Somers!
If that's the reason why you didn't bring her, send for her at once; my coachman can take a card from you; the brougham's all ready to fetch her, and there you are. She'll see only you and me." He was already moving towards the bell, when Leyton stopped him. "No matter now. I can tell you her business, I fancy; and in fact, I came here to speak of it, quite independently of her."
Leyton returned to the study, and explained holy and beautiful things, which were new to the neglected boy: of the great yet loving Father; of Him who loved the poor, forlorn wretch, equally with the richest, and noblest, and happiest; of the force and efficacy of the sweet beatitude, "Blessed are the Merciful, for they shall obtain Mercy." I heard this story from Mr.
At the trial he had been unable to see his face, and nothing so kind had ever gazed upon him. His proud bad feelings were already melting. "You look half-starved," said Mr. Leyton; "draw nearer to the fire, you can sit down on that stool while I question you; and mind you answer me the truth.
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