It was no
marriage at all. ’
‘It is you who will get the head blown off,’ threatened the young lady fiercely. He forced her arm back, away, stretching it out to keep the
weapon at bay. Do you think that it makes for happiness to force oneself
into the extravagant belief that love is the only thing in the world worth having,
and to sacrifice for it independence, self-respect, one’s whole scheme of life. One, by
perseverance and industry shall obtain fortune, credit, and the highest honours;
while the other by an opposite course, and dissolute habits, shall eventually
arrive at Tyburn. There was something in Jonathan's manner, as he issued this
command, that struck the man as singular, and he afterwards recalled it. Their example was immediately imitated by
the officers, constables, javelin men, and other attendants; and nothing was to be
heard but shouts of laughter and jesting,—nothing seen but the passing of
glasses, and the emptying of foaming jugs. Gerald doubted
there would be many eager suitors, even assuming the comtesse was keen to
marry off her daughter to a foreign protestant. A crowd
was collected round the fellow, who was rapidly disposing of his stock. He could not know about the
Remenham connection, could he? No one knew but her father and Martha. A little
kindness would not bring the world tumbling about her ears. ’
‘Eh bien, what then?’
Emile sidled closer.
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