And this though he was evidently
passionately in love with her. All was
darkness, horror, confusion, ruin. His tongue
was more ready, his wit more keen than usual. Red velvet curtains
rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy
snap. “It’s a great deal for a young lady
who’s alone in the world, as I suppose you are at present, to have a respectable
home, and I do not think in such a case that private apartments are at all
desirable. "Let the gentleman take his own course," said Jonathan, mildly. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking
advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his
money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the
name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. "
"Damnation!" cried Jonathan, stamping his foot with uncontrollable rage. Sheppard, bitterly. "
"Of course—of course," returned Wood, hastily; "anything's better than that. The lady's name's
engraved inside, but so small I can scarcely read it. "
"Where are you going?" asked his mother. "
"Ah. It was a reputation
by no means deserved. He seemed to possess infinite reserves of patience
when she refused him or purposely tried to bait and anger
him, but his patience only made him seem more sinister.
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