Love at the Loom — page 278: what you’re looking at

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oe But j it only Preiices me eee you the ether: ‘Tf you were ee proud, knowing creature like Mrs. Irwin, now. you ne might stand some chance of being set free. In fact ; sg don’t think I could be hired to marry her. ‘ “So your only idea of the way to bring about a mar- riage is force. Bless your innocent heart! No min- ister would marry us if you were not willing. It will _ be necessary for you to be a willing bride.” 2 ~e- _ “That I will never be.” “How little you know yourself, or guess at the re- sources of a mind like mine that has been trained in : | many different schools. There are several ways of : es? bringing you around to willingness.” In the meantime _ She shuddered at his expression, and he laughed is teickedtly. “There!” he exclaimed wih a pretense of soothing her fears, “don’t be unnecessarily alarmed. Would - you like to know how I purpose bringing that about? “Well, you need only wait until to-morrow—to-day _I should say, however, for day dawn is not far away. ” he stopped and listened. The footsteps of the returning Jake were heard. ig significant smile passed over the face of the Goldie ictal it with a sinking of the heart. The words he had used to her, and his. assured manner, se ‘made her, feel that the chain of circumstance had been — comick 500 S.CO n