"
An awful silence prevailed throughout the court. I didn’t get it, why she put on the innocent act. "
"And you want me to find a minister?" she asked, with ready comprehension. “He would never have found you out if
you had not personated me. Understand me! I forbid it. "
"By Heaven!" cried Kneebone, with increasing fervour, "it is true—as true as my
affection for you. He then spoke with a certain fatherly
kindliness of the past. ”
“But why didn’t you prohibit once for all the whole thing? How dared she tell
you that?”
“Out of defiance. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. They were on their way back home, or so she had
thought. "I want to speak to
Edgeworth Bess myself. I've only a Chinaman who is studying under me; but he's
a good sport and will help us out during the crisis. Never sent for the shirt. To be with
you is the best moral tonic I know.
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