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It seee any man should deliberately venture life for one he had never seen; one whom, moreover, he hated with an intensity of passion seldoeful disposition, nor often indulged in grave personal dislike, yet it would be wrong in this simple narrative for me to attempt concealment of my own impulses So it is impossible to deny that, from the first moment when she called Charles de Noyan husband, I felt toward hiree of animosity deeper than I had before supposed it possible forIt was bitter memory of the past, a belief that I had once won the heart of this fair girl, only to be balked of reward by spectral hands of religion, which swayed er was one who had purchased, from priests at the altar, as mine by divine decree; ould reeable, eternally sealed by higher power than any priestly ritual

Yet I had already passed through a day and night of intense excite to preserve the life of this ladly see die than any one I ever knew I stood now in the open jaws of htest false ed word, upon his part orof suspicion in the simple mind of the sentry without, or of his captain in the corridor; the return to consciousness, or chance discovery, of the bound priest upon the upper deck, would ruin every hope, sentencing me to a fate no less speedy or certain than that which noaited hiht aid in the escape of the one and only man in all the orld who stood between me and the woman I loved

It was an odd position, a heartless caprice of fate I felt the full ht never occurred to htest dreah any act of baseness I was not there for his sake, or htest as lahose pleading face forever rose beforehim for the first time, there was little except bitter hatred in my heart--hatred which, no doubt, burned for the instant within my eyes,--but a hatred which never returned, to curse my memory, from that day unto this I may have found much to test my patience, much to dislike about him in those weary weeks which followed, ave birth anew to the deep resentment I buried there