persisted, this time with feeling and something like a hint of eagerness in his voice.
I dared not say “Yes,” and yet I must have the assurance Toni Kroos Drakter I demanded, if ever I was to know peace again.
“You no not answer; but I think, I feel confident you would believe my word, Miss Sterling.”
“I have asked for it,” I returned.
He turned frightfully pale; Gelson Fernandes Drakter it seemed as if he would speak, but the words did not come. I felt, my heart growing sick, and as for him, he started violently away from my side, and took a Georginio Wijnaldum Drakter turn or two up and down the room.
“I cannot deny what looks like an accusation,” he declared at last, coming and standing before me with a sombre but determined air. “My pride alone is sufficient to deter me. Will you accept from Benjamin Mendy Drakter me any thing less. I am not such a man as my brother.”
“I will accept your assurance that as the true friend to Ada Reynolds I may remain in this house without stain to her memory or love.”
“Then you think —”
“No,” said I, with a burst I could not control, “I do not think; I do not want to think; do not make me, I entreat.”
He smiled, a sad and fearful smile, and took another turn up and down the seemingly darkening room. When he came back I was cold as marble, and almost as insensible.
“Miss Sterling,” were his words, “do you remember a conversation we had this morning?”
I bowed, with a sudden rush of hope that almost melted me again.
“In that conversation I made a solemn assertion; do you recollect what it was?”
“Yes,” I looked, if I did not audibly reply.
“I make that assertion again — is it sufficient?” Jordan 6 he asked.
At that moment it seemed to me that it was. I looked and felt as if a great weight had been lifted from my heart, and though he flushed deeply, as any man of spirit, let alone one of such a proud and aristocratic nature as his, would be apt to under the circumstances, I saw that he experienced a relief also, and giving way to an impulse I do not yet know whether to regret or not, I held out my hand, saying calmly:
“I will remain, Mr. Pollard.”
Chapter 8
A Flower from the Pollard Conservatory.
You may wear your rue with a difference.
HAMLET.
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