[The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wrong Box CHAPTER XI 23/33
What could Jimson be to you? Who was Jimson? Miss Hazeltine, it cut me to the heart.' 'Really this seems to me to be very silly,' returned Julia, with severe decision.
'You have behaved in the most extraordinary manner; you pretend you are able to explain your conduct, and instead of doing so you begin to attack me.' 'I am well aware of that,' replied Gideon.
'I--I will make a clean breast of it.
When you know all the circumstances you will be able to excuse me. And sitting down beside her on the deck, he poured forth his miserable history. 'O, Mr Forsyth,' she cried, when he had done, 'I am--so--sorry! wish I hadn't laughed at you--only you know you really were so exceedingly funny.
But I wish I hadn't, and I wouldn't either if I had only known.' And she gave him her hand. Gideon kept it in his own.
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