A Daughter of Delilah — page 118: what you’re looking at

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ST. LEONARD’S FINE HAND. 109 CHAPTER X. ST. LEONARDS’ FINE HAND. After St. Leonards was gone, Edgar Alston almost hugged himself with delight. Hedid not for a moment doubt the nobleman’s ability to assist him. He had no reason to suspect him of treacherous dealings. The only point which he rebelled against was absenting himself from the woman who had enslaved him. ‘‘He will expect some return for this,’’ he thought, ‘‘and I shall ever consider myself his debtor! And then his kind words concerning my darling! Her connections are equal to my own, and now I defy the whole world! What blessed news for Isabel!”’ He dispatched a messenger to the nearest telegraph office with the following: “TsaABEL’ RUSSELL, No. —— Park Avenue:—All is ar- ranged. I shall be with you to-morrow. EK. A.’’ He smoked another cigar, and rehearsed again and again the scene that was to take place between himself and. his father. During this fanciful dialogue, in which he ap- peared truly heroic, and came off with flying colors, he imbibed several more glasses of brandy. He had taken a great liking to stimulants since indulging in absinthe. The moral coward always flies to drink to either drown his sorrows or bolster him up with fictitious courage. At three o’clock he prepared to return home.. He told himself that he would have a warm bath. Nothing like a bath to straighten a man when he feels overwrought. His Gomicboo cS (E(0)