Do not keep me here, but let me go at once.There.

Dear girl--dear girl.' The grasp which had detained him relaxed, and Kate swooned in his arms.
Nicholas stooped over her for a few seconds, and placing her gently in a chair, confided her to their honest friend.
'I need not entreat your sympathy,' he said, wringing her hand, 'for I know your nature.

You will never forget them.' He stepped up to Ralph, who remained in the same attitude which he had preserved throughout the interview, and moved not a finger.
'Whatever step you take, sir,' he said, in a voice inaudible beyond themselves, 'I shall keep a strict account of.

I leave them to you, at your desire.

There will be a day of reckoning sooner or later, and it will be a heavy one for you if they are wronged.' Ralph did not allow a muscle of his face to indicate that he heard one word of this parting address.