He’s terrible!”
“Dad!”
Lucy smiled at John. But
Gerald wouldn’t hear of it. Sheppard, with a laugh that cut the ears of those
who listened to it like a razor,—"Do not despair! And who or what shall give me
comfort when my son is gone? I have wept till my eyes are dry,—suffered till
my heart is broken,—prayed till the voice of prayer is dumb,—and all of no
avail. There was a strip of old rose brocade in
the making that set an ache in the girl's heart for the want of it. From this singular collection Trenchard turned to
regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged
in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless
countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he
could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to
his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of
so unscrupulous a miscreant. But she made no answer. Yet, stay! There is one thing I wish you to do. Just as they reached the eastern outlet of the churchyard—
where the tall elms cast a pleasant shade over the rustic graves—a momentary
stoppage took place. But there must be an Englishman who would like to marry her
to get Remenham House.
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