A Daughter of Delilah — page 123: what you’re looking at

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we: ST. LEONARD'S FINE HAND. passion how piteously her lips trembled. ‘‘Good-by. He will beg my pardon some day!”’ He turned to leave the room, but was met by a savage blow, that left a livid mark on his face. ‘‘Coward!’’ hissed Alston. ‘‘Thatis for the words you hurled at me when you called my future wife an infamous woman! Now retaliate if you have the manliness to do so!’’ | In a moment Minnie was between the two enraged men, her face deathly white, her whole form quivering. ‘You are drunk!’’ Hawley said, in contemptuous tones, ‘‘and I repeat that some day you will beg my pardon. You know that [am no coward. In your present state it would be an easy matter to thrash you, but I cannot forget that you are the misguided brother of the woman I love—that you were once my friend!’’ So saying, Hawley pressed a kiss on Minin? S cheek, and stepped swiftly out of the room, followed by the taunts of Edgar Alston. While this unhappy scené was being enacted, Mr. Jabez Alston was walking home. This was a certain sign that his mind was greatly disturbed. If anything agitated or perplexed him seriously, he invariably walked to and from the office, no matter how inclement the weather, although his carriage was always within call. As. he was crossing Madison square Edward Hawley almost collided with him without noticing who it was. ‘Pardon!’ he murmured, and would have passed on had not the financier recognized him. ‘‘“Kdward Hawley! My dear fellow, I have not seen you - for weeks! Are you forgetting your old friends?’ Mr. Ja- Eomichbooksco