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 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; 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 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 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 Dziecko Koszulka 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 Męskie Koszulka 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?” he asked.
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“I will remain, Mr. Pollard.”
Chapter 8
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My walk down to the gate was full of a certain uneasy apprehension. I had made no secret of my intentions at the supper-table, and for the reason that neither of the brothers had ventured upon any reply to my remark, I expected one, if not both, of them to join me on the way. But I reached the last turn of the path without meeting any one, and I was congratulating myself upon the prospect of having an hour of perfect freedom, when Koszulka Ac Milan I detected, leaning on the gate befolinks:
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