” He turned to the waiter, who held a wine-card. Perhaps I've been mad all these years; I don't know. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the fate to which I consigned his father. ” He left at once, immensely relieved, yet scarcely satisfied with himself as regarded his share of the interview with this young woman. She is a fortune-teller and a vessel for man’s pleasure. ‘And if he is dead I know not. The features were indistinct, but was that not a halo of white about it? And the dark shadow below, was that a cloak, or the habit of a nun? Skirting the dancing, from which he had taken a breather—not from lack of energy, but to escape the inanities of the young ladies he had partnered—Gerald made his way to a side door in the saloon and opened it. Ennison. " He signalled to Ah Cum; and the two of them crossed on foot into the city. I have made her an honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented parent, whose memory—" "Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence. She listened with growing apprehension to the tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced years. " "No fear of that," laughed Kneebone.
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