“You didn’t expect that I should kiss you?”
“How was I to know that a man would—would think it was possible—when
there was nothing—no love?”
“How did I know there wasn’t love?”
That silenced her for a moment. "Well, Sir Rowland," he said, after a brief pause, during which the knight
regarded him with a searching glance, as if endeavouring to recall his features, "I
will not gainsay your words. ’
‘Yes, but what is it, Jacques?’ demanded the lady. “Cool. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. A deep dread calm, like that which precedes a thunderstorm, now prevailed
amongst the assemblage. But he was at last
persuaded that I mean you no harm, and that I might—just possibly, since I am
both a gentleman and a major of militia—be able to be of more assistance to you
than he himself. “I mean to,” she replied. We will go to Ostend by the early morning boat and choose a hiding
place from there. “Wise! Kind! What mockery words are! I came because I had to. Though he walked by the side of the governor, he seldom
exchanged a word with him, but appeared wholly absorbed in the contemplations
inspired by a broadbowled Dutch pipe.
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