22/23 Oh, if I had known how noble you were, I should have told you all at once." "Perhaps I should have been as ignoble as ever," said Stangrave, "if that young English Viscount had not put me on my mettle by his own nobleness." "No! no! Do not belie yourself. You know what he does not;--what I would have died sooner than tell him." Stangrave drew the arm closer through his, and clasped the hand. Marie did not withdraw it. |