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A Lady of Quality | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost |
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"If 'twere not love," she cried--"if 'twere but ambition, I could defy it to the last; but 'tis love--love--love, and it will kill me to forego it." Even as she moaned the words she heard hoof beats near her, and a horseman leaped the hedge and was at her side. She set her teeth, and turning, stared into John Oxon's face. "Did you think I would not follow you?" he asked. "No," she answered. "I have followed you at a distance hitherto," he said; "now I shall follow close." She did not speak, but galloped on. "Think you you can outride me?" he said grimly, quickening his steed's pace. "I go with your ladyship to your own house. For fear of scandal you have not openly rebuffed me previous to this time; for a like reason you will not order your lacqueys to shut your door when I enter it with you." My Lady Dunstanwolde turned to gaze at him again. The sun shone on his bright falling locks and his blue eyes as she had seen it shine in days which seemed so strangely long passed by, though they were not five years agone. "'Tis strange," she said, with a measure of wonder, "to live and be so black a devil." |
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