I had not seen the courtyard in many years
and I was happy to dream of those times. It had seemed to her that life might be very
good indeed with his kindliness and sacrifice about her. Whatever those
rights may be, whoever I am, my heart is yours. Every man in her life had betrayed her
one way or another. A vague desire to justify himself ruffled her father. She would never
look squarely at these dream forms that mocked the social order in which she
lived, never admit she listened to the soft whisperings in her ear. “You remind me of the story which they tell against us over here,
you know—of the Englishman who refused to be saved from drowning because
he was unacquainted with his rescuer. When the carpenter concluded his
recital, Jonathan was for a moment lost in reflection. If a certain kink in your sense of honour will not
permit you to go to her as a lover, go to her as a comrade. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. It seemed as if all the precautions previously
taken were here accumulated. Open that
bottle with a blue seal, my dear. To have sprung this upon them
to-night would have been worth a thousand pounds. She screamed at Sebastian. This person was speedily followed
by half a dozen others, some of whom carried flambeaux.
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