“Are you a special sort of clergyman,” she said, after a pause, and
looking down her nose at him, “or do you go to the Universities?”
“Oh!” he said, profoundly. Never for a moment had violence come between these two since long ago he
had, in spite of her mother’s protest in the background, carried her kicking and
squalling to the nursery for some forgotten crime. I once might have married you for your beauty,—now I marry you
for your wealth. He was not sure that the boy had put himself beyond
the pale; merely, the boy's actions pointed that way. Nothing was given away, and no one came so rich
to the stall as to command all that it had to offer. I pledged my
thumb that, dead or alive, I'd pay the wager if I lost; and I should like to be as
good as my word. laws alone swamp our small staff. The real ‘Alcide’,” she wound up with a faint smile
across the table at him, “is here. His hand shook so violently that
he dropped the handkerchief; and he let it lie on the floor because he dared not
stoop. But all that could be
ascertained in the village was, that a man had ridden off a short time before in
the direction of London.
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