He seemed inexorable, and
inscrutable as fate itself. The cell in which she was confined was about six feet long and
four wide; the walls were scored all over with fantastic designs, snatches of
poetry, short sentences and names,—the work of its former occupants, and of its
present inmate. "These are my terms, Sir Rowland," he added, taking a sheet of paper from his
pocket, and pushing it towards the knight. Who could say that
the two weren't in collusion? When a chap like Spurlock jumped the traces,
cherchez la femme, every time. The idea that he held in his arms the girl whom he
had once so passionately loved, and for whom he still retained an ardent but
hopeless attachment, almost overcame him. She searched for it for many days that stretched
into weeks before she gave up. "Who isn't it like?" he asked, endeavouring to gain possession of the drawing,
which, af the sound of his footstep, she crushed between her fingers. His instinct
was in the direction of considering his daughters his absolute property, bound to
obey him, his to give away or his to keep to be a comfort in his declining years
just as he thought fit. A dull light shone through the open window blinds
and softened the room with parchment yellowness. The rear of the party was brought up by a large, powerfully-built man, with a
bluff, honest, but rugged countenance, slashed with many a cut and scar, and
stamped with that surly, sturdy, bull-dog-like look, which an Englishman always
delights to contemplate, because he conceives it to be characteristic of his
countrymen.
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