human
Mr. Thurnall!
gpt
Sir?
human
I have done you a great wrong!
gpt
We will say no more about it, sir. It was a mistake, and I do not wish to complicate the question. My true ground of quarrel with you is your conduct to Miss Lavington. She seems to have told you her true name, so I shall call her by it.
human
What I have done, I have undone! said Stangrave, looking up.
gpt
If I have wronged her, I have offered to right her; if I have left her, I have sought her again; and if I left her when I knew nothing, now that I know all, I ask her here, before you, to become my wife!
human
Yes; I have told him all--all?
gpt
Well, said Tom,
human
Mr. Stangrave is a very enviable person; and the match in a worldly point of view, is a most fortunate one for Miss Lavington; and that stupid rascal of a gendarme has broken my revolver.
gpt
But I have not accepted him, cried Marie;
human
My dear Miss Lavington, as I have never been able to settle my own love affairs satisfactorily to myself, I do not feel at all competent to settle other people's. Good-bye! I shall be late for the steamer.
gpt
Sabina! Stop him! cried she;
human
Sabina, whispered Tom as he passed her,--
gpt
You're wrong--prejudiced--indeed!
human
Tut, tut, tut!--Good-bye, you sweet little sunbeam. Good morning, gentlemen!
gpt
Gone, without a kind word!
human
It is my fault, Marie! my fault! He knew me too well of old, and had too much reason to despise me! But he shall have reason no longer. He will come back, and find me worthy of you; and all will be forgotten. Again I say it, I accept your quest, for life and death. So help me God above, as I will not fail or falter, till I have won justice for you and for your race! Marie?