Despard, the Spy: Or, The Fall of Montreal — page 20: what you’re looking at

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18 KBPARD, THE BFY. hall table, and walked into the little parlor without waiting for an invitation. “ Gentlemen, when visiting a lady, usually wait until they are asked to stay before they remove their hats,” said Marie, who hated the major cordially. “ Upon my honor, sir, you presuine too much.” “By no means, my too-charming relative ; ma belle cou- sine, you are wrong. It:is no more than fair that a man who has been unavoidably separated from one he loves fora long period, should waive ceremony when at last they are brought together.” “I must be excused if I do not see the occasion for :Cap- tain Dujardin’s visit,” said the girl, “‘ when I have forbidden his entrance to the house.” “Major Dujardin, my dear girl Do you not see. these , toys upon my shoulder? Jam promoted fer my attempt ‘to retake your English lover, whom may all the saints confound. Oh, if I get him once again within the length of my sword, it shall go hard but 1 willmake himsure. A curse upon dim, black-hearted villain that,he is !” “ Did you come here that you might curse him, Mariot Du- jardin ?—for I will not give you the title earned by crime und treachery. Do you dare to insult him, who is as much above you now as he was on the night when he beat you down before his sword and set his foot upon you? Then, but that he shows mercy even to, a snake which shows sub- mission, you would have died, the death you deserve. Did you not confess, that might, that it was you who'killed my brother ?” “ Yes; I grant I did,” he said, coolly. “Then why are you ‘here? ‘You, can not hope that my heart will ever relent toward you, ..No, Mariot, Dujardin ; if I had a dagger in my hand now, I think 1 should have the heart to strike you dead. Beware of me!” “ You are a greater spitfire. than ever; but. I care-not,” “Say youso? Leave me, then. The air you infect with your breath is odious.to me. : Your, hateful face makes ‘me shudder -as_ I) think that, with that face, covering to -a tiger heart, you stabbed ‘one to. we death who had ‘trusted YOu as & comiclbooks CO