28/53 Therefore I warn you." "I am not frightened. I should like vastly to say something to you: Be what you are, be what you choose; but do, sometimes, as I tell you." If Rowland was not frightened, neither, perhaps, was Miss Garland; but she seemed at least slightly disturbed. She proposed that they should join their companions. "Mary, dear," she whispered, "suppose we had to kiss that dreadful brass toe. If I could only have kept our door-knocker, at Northampton, as bright as that! I think it's so heathenish; but Roderick says he thinks it 's sublime." Roderick had evidently grown a trifle perverse. |