The woollen-draper looked at his watch. After all, he had the means of setting this tormenting doubt at rest. He heard the struggle on the landing, the fall of the heavy body, the groan,—and excited almost to frenzy by his fears, he succeeded in forcing open the door. Just this? Parbleu, did he think this was enough? She did not wish to marry him—at least, not just because he was an Englishman. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!” This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. She calls us her guests, but in reality we are her prisoners. All I had to do was to piece them together. “I thought you weren’t getting along so well with your mother these days. She looked down at him and saw that the sunlight was gleaming from his cheeks, and that all over his cheeks was a fine golden down of delicate hairs. Plote was sleeping or deaf. ‘I suppose you think I can’t manage it myself,’ had complained Captain Roding sarcastically. Folding his arms, he placed his back against the door, and burst into a loud laugh. Well, well; all he himself could do would be to watch this singular drama unroll.
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