The back of the house
had been the Alps for climbing, and the shrubs in front of it a Terai. After debating with himself whether he should further seek an interview, which,
though, now in his power, was so sedulously shunned by the other party, he
decided in the negative; and contenting himself with writing upon a slip of paper
the hasty words,—"You are known by the villagers,—be upon your guard,"—he
gave it to the ostler, with instructions to deliver it instantly to the owner of the
horse he pointed out, and pursued his course. She
meditated long and carefully upon her letter to her father before she wrote it, and
gravely and deliberately again before she despatched it. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. "
"Afraid?"
"Yes. “God in Heaven, Annabel!” he cried. ” Michelle said, tossing her
glossy ponytail defiantly. ”
He paused for a moment, and then suddenly continued. And there was that dress of hers! She must be warned
that she had been imposed upon. He said that for him beauty
justified life, that he could not imagine a good action that was not a beautiful one
nor any beautiful thing that could be altogether bad. “I thought that I heard a groan,” Anna whispered. The noise was raucous. ‘Stay, Saling!’
The butler halted, looking round enquiringly. Leave the rest
to me. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but
imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total
obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which
Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their
intricacies, to thread them on a dark night.
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