11/19 We've never had an ill feeling to the woman; utterly the contrary--pity, pity, pity! Let her do that, we're at her feet, my Nataly and I.If you knew what my poor girl suffers! She 's a saint at the stake. Chiefly on behalf of her family. Fenellan, you may have a sort of guess at my fortune: I'll own to luck; I put in a claim to courage and calculation.' 'You've been a bulwark to your friends.' 'All, Fenellan, all-stocks, shares, mines, companies, industries at home and--abroad--all, at a sweep, to have the woman strike that blow! Cheerfully would I begin to build a fortune over again--singing! Ha! the woman has threatened it before. It's probably feline play with us.' His chin took support, he frowned. What 's the secret of her? |