The Dugdale Millions — page 273: what you’re looking at

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A BURST OF SUNSHINE. 203 dislike me, and when father called me from the game and made me go back with him he asked me if that were so and I was not satisfactory, and so he asked me if I—loved you i Bessie hesitated. The eager Dick could not wait for her to goon and said: ‘*And you told him of course that you did not.”’ “No, I did not tell him that,’’ answered Bessie, lifting beaming eyes to him shyly, “‘I could not tell him that.’’ Her words came slowly and hesitatingly now, but after some struggle with her modesty she went on: “I told him that if you were to pay me that highest compliment a man can pay a woman, and should ask me to be wife to you, I should say yes.”’ It is well they were in the shrubbery and out of sight. When Dick released her again, she looked up at him with burning cheeks and a merry twinkle in her eve: ut, she said, “I was safe in doing so, for you see you have not asked me, and so father was not in such danger after all.’’ It is needless to say that Dick determined immedi- ately to put her father in all possible danger, and to the question Bessie replied softly that she would be, out that she would not marry him until her father gave his consent or, she added by way of amendment, until he had been given ample opportunity to consent. By this time Wallis was evidently of the behef that Dick had been given all the time he was entitled to, for her voice was heard calling tothem. They now hastened on. But Wallis had a purpose other than put- ting an end to the interview she had promised Dick, and was seeking on her own account a diversion. Certain events which had occurred had proved Bes- gle to be a prophet. Comicboeclk C@ 3