“Love should be enough, John, but it
never is. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. Innumerable little puzzles were instantly solved. There was no reason why she shouldn’t be his restrained and dignified
friend. Except for a few early ebullitions of passion, natural to a
warm and romantic disposition, and leaving no harmful after-effects—ebullitions
that by the standards of the higher truth I feel no one can justly cast a stone at,
and of which I for one am by no means ashamed—I come to you a pure and
unencumbered man. He must be a sly fox to get out of the
Mint without my knowledge. Come close to me, and let me hold your hand,
dear. . "
"Take hence this boy, then," rejoined Trenchard; "his looks unman me. Without a word, the general reached out and took them, but his glance
searched the girl’s face. 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. “I am perfectly certain that that
man meant to be rude to me. “You poor little girl!” he cried. Distress like hers might palliate far greater offences than she ever
committed.
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