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80 BLACK SHEEP."What a temper you have! You'd be ratherhard to please,Ifancy, if one were in any sensebound to try.""Don't jest with me," said Routh, suddenlyand sternly,and he rolled his chair" deliberatelynear her as he spoke. You did not allow me,you did not invite me to come here to-night;you did not do this, yvhich seems so ' simple' toyou,because you are as much braver than everyother woman, as you are more beautiful," — helooked into her dark eyes, and their lids did notdroop, — " only to jest with me, only to trifle yvithme, as you trifle yvith others. You are a wonderfullypuzzling woman,Iacknowledge; noyvoman ever so puzzled me before. Each timeIsee you, there is something different, somethingnew in your manner, and eachtime it is asthoughIhad to begin all over again; as ifIhad not told you thatIlove you, as if you hadnot listened and confessed that you knoyv it.AVhy haveyou sent for me? You dismissed meyesterday with something yvhich you tried tomake look and sound like — anger ineffectually,for you yvere not angry.AnclI yvas prepared
THE SEVERING OF THE HAIR.81for the same line of tactics to-day. Well, yousend for me.Iam here. You come to me athousand times more beautiful" — he dropped hisvoice to a whisper, and she greyv pale under thefixed fire of his eyes, — " infinitely more beautifulthanIhave ever seen you; and inyour eyes andin y-our smile there is yvhatIhave never seenin them; andyet you meet me yvith mere jestingwords. Noyv, this you do not mean; what is itthat you do mean?"He rose, and leaned against the mantelpiece,looking doyvn upon her bent head, with the lightshining on the jeyvels in her hah'. She did notspeak."What is it that you do mean?" he repeated.She had laid one arm along the cushioned sideof the sofa, the side near him. He clasped it,above the wrist, impressively, not caressingly,and at the touch, the yvords he had spoken to herbefore, " Would you not be afraid of a man yvholoved you with all the passion of his heart?"recurred to her, and she felt that so this manloved her, and that she yvas afraid of him." Idare say many others have loved you, andVOL. III.G
- Page 37 and 38: A FIRST APPEAL. 29"This cursed thin
- Page 39 and 40: A FIRST APPEAL.31pressing her templ
- Page 41: A FIRST APPEAL. 33Stewart," said Ha
- Page 44 and 45: 36 BLACK SHEEP." Iwill," she said,
- Page 46 and 47: 38 BLACK SHEEP." But how can he dis
- Page 48 and 49: 40 BLACK SHEEP." There are not many
- Page 50 and 51: 42 BLACK SHEEP.in yours — in mine
- Page 52 and 53: 44 BLACK SHEEP.thing,Ican tell you.
- Page 54 and 55: 46 BLACK SHEEP.ask me anything now.
- Page 56 and 57: 48 BLACK SHEEP.man of stronger will
- Page 58 and 59: 50 BLACK SHEEP.you, she knows all a
- Page 60 and 61: 52 BLACK SHEEP.accompany beauty, we
- Page 62 and 63: 54 BLACK SHEEr." Indeed," saidMr. F
- Page 64 and 65: 56 BLACK SHEEP.he, on the other han
- Page 66 and 67: 58 BLACK SHEEP.cruelty of coquetry
- Page 68 and 69: 60 BLACK SHEEP.yvith him just enoug
- Page 70 and 71: 62 BLACK SHEEP.him well enough to s
- Page 72 and 73: 64 BLACK SHEEP.sign which his capto
- Page 74 and 75: 66 BLACK SHEEP." Iam happy to hear
- Page 76 and 77: 68 BLACK SHEEP.ever, yvith hope, yv
- Page 78 and 79: 70 BLACK SHEEP.coming light and eas
- Page 80 and 81: 72 BLACK SHEEP.bleyv and raged over
- Page 82 and 83: 74 BLACK SHEEP.How dreary the place
- Page 84 and 85: 76 BLACK SHEEP.he sawa man standing
- Page 86 and 87: 78 BLACK SHEEP.Rich purple amethyst
- Page 90 and 91: 82 BLACK SHEEP.told you so," he con
- Page 92 and 93: 84 BLACK SHEEP.what is itthat you m
- Page 94 and 95: 86 BLACK SHEEP.will never swerve or
- Page 96 and 97: 88 BLACK SHEEP.as soon as he releas
- Page 98 and 99: 90 BLACK SHEEP.manner, his look yva
- Page 100 and 101: 92 BLACK SHEEP.merous progeny of a
- Page 102 and 103: 94 BLACK SHEEP.and pointing to some
- Page 104 and 105: CHAPTER Y.MOVING ON.Unconscious of
- Page 106 and 107: 98 BLACK SHEEP.technical sense that
- Page 108 and 109: 100 BLACK SHEEP.with the mysterious
- Page 110 and 111: 102 BLACK SHEEP.mother yvas the onl
- Page 112 and 113: 104 BLACK SHEEP.illness ?He set him
- Page 114 and 115: 106 BLACK SHEEP.He found his step-s
- Page 116 and 117: 108 BLACK SHEEP.presence, ancl the
- Page 118 and 119: 110 BLACK SHEEP.phew yvas a "good-f
- Page 120 and 121: 112 BLACK SHEEP." Ishould think you
- Page 122 and 123: 114 BLACK SHEEP.Carruthers, had sai
- Page 124 and 125: 116 BLACK SHEEP.police on this matt
- Page 126 and 127: 118 BLACK SHEEP.now. Every day her
- Page 128 and 129: 120 BLACK SHEEP.rible conviction of
- Page 130 and 131: 122 BLACK SHEEP.yvith infinitely mo
- Page 132 and 133: 124 BLACK SHEEP.change which her ne
- Page 134 and 135: 126 BLACK SHEEP.tions of maternal c
- Page 136 and 137: 128 BLACK SHEEr.ing, and then, when
THE SEVERING OF THE HAIR.81for the same line of tactics to-day. Well, yousend for me.Iam here. You come to me athousand times more beautiful" — he dropped hisvoice to a whisper, and she greyv pale under thefixed fire of his eyes, — " infinitely more beautifulthanIhave ever seen you; and inyour eyes andin y-our smile there is yvhatIhave never seenin them; andyet you meet me yvith mere jestingwords. Noyv, this you do not mean; what is itthat you do mean?"He rose, and leaned against the mantelpiece,looking doyvn upon her bent head, with the lightshining on the jeyvels in her hah'. She did notspeak."What is it that you do mean?" he repeated.She had laid one arm along the cushioned sideof the sofa, the side near him. He clasped it,above the wrist, impressively, not caressingly,and at the touch, the yvords he had spoken to herbefore, " Would you not be afraid of a man yvholoved you with all the passion of his heart?"recurred to her, and she felt that so this manloved her, and that she yvas afraid of him." Idare say many others have loved you, andVOL. III.G
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