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A Terrible Temptation

CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER II.
SIR CHARLES and Mr.Oldfield settled that lady's retiring pension, and Mr.Oldfield took the memoranda home, with instructions to prepare a draft deed for Miss Somerset's approval.
Meantime Sir Charles visited Miss Bruce every day.

Her affections for him grew visibly, for being engaged gave her the courage to love.
Mr.Bassett called pretty often; but one day he met Sir Charles on the stairs, and scowled.
That scowl cost him dear, for Sir Charles thereupon represented to Bella that a man with a grievance is a bore to the very eye, and asked her to receive no more visits from his scowling cousin.

The lady smiled, and said, with soft complacency, "I obey." Sir Charles's gallantry was shocked.
"No, don't say 'obey.' It is a little favor I ventured to ask." "It is like you to ask what you have a right to command.

I shall be out to him in future, and to every one who is disagreeable to you.

What! does 'obey' frighten you from my lips?
To me it is the sweetest in the language.


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