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Alas! after the steamer, as the fates would have it, came lumbering down one of those monster timber rafts; and it was a full half hour before Stangrave could get across, having suffered all the while the torments of Tantalus, as he watched the boat sweep round to the pier, and discharge its freight, to be scattered whither he knew not.
Venus had disarmed Rhadamanthus, as she has Mars so often; and the sword of Justice must rust in its scabbard. Some distance behind them is Stangrave, talking in a low voice, earnestly, passionately, to whom but to Marie?
I took to that girl, for poor Wyse's sake; and I'll behave by her to the last as he would wish; and he who insults her, insults me. I won't go out of my way to find Stangrave: but if I do, I'll have it out!" "Then you will certainly fight. My dearest Tom, do look into your own heart, and see whether you have not a grain or two of spite against him left. I assure you you judge him too harshly."
"Wonderful ... that you can care for me.... Oh, if I had known how noble you were, I should have told you all at once." "Perhaps I should have been as ignoble as ever," said Stangrave, "if that young English Viscount had not put me on my mettle by his own nobleness." "No! no! Do not belie yourself. You know what he does not; what I would have died sooner than tell him."
And, whether, it was that he did forget Marie awhile; or whether he were tired, as he well might have been; or whether he had too rapidly consumed his bottle of red Walporzheimer, forgetful that it alone of German wines combines the delicacy of the Rhine sun with the potency of its Burgundian vinestock, transplanted to the Ahr by Charlemagne; whether it were any of these causes, or whether it were not, Stangrave fell fast asleep in the Kaise-kellar, and slept till it was dark, at the risk of catching a great cold.
"I waited outside, afraid of what I might hear for how could I tell!" said he, lowering his voice; "but when I saw you go in, I knew all was right, and followed you; and when I heard my father laugh, I knew that he could bear a little surprise. But, Stangrave, did you say? Ah! this is too delightful, old fellow! How's Marie and the children?"
Tom looked first at her, and then at Stangrave. Marie was convulsed with excitement; her thin cheeks were crimson, her eyes flashed very flame. Stangrave was pale calm outwardly, but evidently not within. He was looking on the ground, in thought so intense that he hardly seemed to hear Marie. Poor fellow! he had heard enough in the last ten minutes to bewilder any brain.
Stangrave is a very enviable person; and the match in a worldly point of view, is a most fortunate one for Miss Lavington; and that stupid rascal of a gendarme has broken my revolver." "But I have not accepted him," cried Marie; "and I will not unless you give me leave." Tom saw Stangrave's brow lower, and pardonably enough, at this.
Then try at once;" but he was ashamed, of course, to make use of words which he had so accidentally overheard. Tom looked carefully at Stangrave, to divine his temper from his countenance. It was quite angry enough to give Tom excuse for saying to himself "The fellow is mad at being caught at last. Very well."
He was in the passage, in the act of settling his account with the waiter, when Thurnall came hastily out, and ran against him. Stangrave stood by the passage lamp, so that he saw Tom's face at once. Tom drew back; begged a thousand pardons; and saw Stangrave's face in turn. The two men looked at each other for a few seconds. Stangrave longed to say, "You intend to shoot me?
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