Will you protect my father from the evil you have brought upon him ?" "Oh, Eleanor, I will do anything; let me tell you how I love you!" "No, no, no!" she almost screamed.

"This is unmanly of you, Mr Bold.
Will you, will you, will you leave my father to die in peace in his quiet home ?" and seizing him by his arm and hand, she followed him across the room towards the door.

"I will not leave you till you promise me; I'll cling to you in the street; I'll kneel to you before all the people.

You shall promise me this, you shall promise me this, you shall--" And she clung to him with fixed tenacity, and reiterated her resolve with hysterical passion.
"Speak to her, John; answer her," said Mary, bewildered by the unexpected vehemence of Eleanor's manner; "you cannot have the cruelty to refuse her." "Promise me, promise me," said Eleanor; "say that my father is safe;--one word will do.

I know how true you are; say one word, and I will let you go." She still held him, and looked eagerly into his face, with her hair dishevelled and her eyes all bloodshot.