"Certainly," replied Jonathan, with the most perfect sangfroid, "I'll undertake to
free you from the boy. Terrific yells rent the air. Not a word was uttered for some time, nor any sound heard except the stilled
sobs of the unfortunate mother. “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’
one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and
Drummond and his lot were with us. This man was her husband in the eyes of both God
and man. "
"So I find, Captain," rejoined Quilt, submissively; "but you're too noble-hearted
to take advantage of my situation. Ann Veronica took off her jacket and sat down in the corner chair, and leaned
forward to look into the great hazy warm brown cavity of the house, and
Ramage placed his chair to sit beside her and near her, facing the stage. Will you be a faithful and honest
wife? Will you do your duty by him, and forget all your past follies? Unless,
Annabel, you can——”
“Oh, I will pledge you my word,” Annabel cried passionately, “my solemn word. "I'm too well acquainted with your proceedings,
Madam, to believe that. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the
whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion
seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon
the threshold. Her
voice was weak and flat. "
"Loved me! You!"
"I loved you," continued Jonathan, "and struck by your appearance, which
seemed above your station, inquired your history, and found you had been stolen
by a gipsy in Lancashire. He'll mend, I
hope.
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