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A woman, at such a juncture may forbid speech, or deny her ear: a man, unless he would seem the first of Josephs or the last of coxcombs, dare not even hint at his unwelcome suspicions. "I will not have you go into this danger, I will not!" stammered Molly incoherently. The dusk was spreading, and her eyes seemed to grow larger and larger in the uncertain light. "Lady Landale, you misunderstand.
And he came back to Lady Landale, worn with the fatigue of these long days in the cramped discomfort of a schooner cabin, thinned by pain and fevered thinkings, shorn of all that daintiness of appearance which can only be maintained in the midst of luxury, and yet, by the light of the flickering lamp, more triumphantly beautiful than ever. His thoughts leaped to his friend with a pang of remorse.
Landale sat down between the sisters, and turned smiling to address first one and then the other, it would have taken a very practised eye to discern under the extra urbanity of his demeanour the intensity of his inward mortification.
The gesture was one of utter despair. Before this weakness Molly promptly resumed the superiority of self-possession. "Yes," she said, and this time the smile came back to her face, "I am Lady Landale, and my sister Madeleine I grieve to have to say so has not had that courage for which you gave her credit to-night."
When the clouds cleared away it was to let him see Rupert's face bending over him, his pale lips wreathed into a smile of malignant exultation. "Caught!" said Mr. Landale, slowly, pausing over each word as though to prolong the savour of it in his mouth, "caught this time! And it is your mistress's hand that puts the noose round your neck. That is what I call poetical justice."
Landale dropped in his palm with an air of great candour, and, without further parley, acted on the kind advice to repair to the Priory and talk with one Mrs. Puckett the housekeeper, on the subject of corporeal refreshment. "Well," said Molly, bursting in upon her sister, who sat by her writing-table, pen in hand, and did not even raise her head at the unceremonious entrance.
Among the remainder of the once formidable crew, now seized and battened down under French hatches, was of course Adrian Landale he bore a charmed life. And for a short while the only change probable in his prospects was a return to French prisons, until such time as it pleased Heaven to restore peace between the two nations. But the fortune of war, especially at sea, is fickle and fitful.
But at the present juncture, Molly's estimate of Sir Adrian's mood was mistaken. His love of peace, which amounted to a well-known weakness where he alone was concerned, weighed not a feather in the balance when such an interest as that now engaged was at stake. As a matter of fact, Rupert Landale was to be taken by surprise again, that day, and again not pleasantly.
Landale looked very magnanimous, and thrust his fingers as he spoke through the upper buttons of his waistcoat with the gesture which traditionally accompanies such sentiments: these cheap effects proved generally irresistible with Sophia.
He sighed, and again came the murmur: "She would not come " He lifted his hand to his forehead and looked round, then down at her, as if from a great height. She saw that he was aroused at last, sprang to her feet, and poured out the details of the scheme again. "I run no risk, you see. They would not dare to punish me, a woman Lady Landale even if they could.
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