Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 64: what you’re looking at

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56 TOLD UNDER THE MOON. confess you astonish me at every turn. I never chanced to meet a young woman just like you.’’ “Ah! there is but one Gypsy Gordon,’’ she says, with a nod, and Pemberton agrees with her. ‘CT his was a inonstrous thing for them to attempt. Why, any or all of us might have been burned to death in our beds.’’ ‘Hardly that—I think his motive was more one of pecuniary loss—something to frighten me.”’ ‘But the house is built of wood, and, once afire, would burn like tinder. It was a deed that merits severe punishment.”’ She looks at him in a peculiar way. ‘What would you think if I told you that this is the fourth time I have been able to defeat this unseen enemy, ‘in some such scheme ??”?’ “Tam amazed—you, a girl, without any assist- ance, baffle such conspirators. I begin to lose the firm belief I have always had in the superiority of my sex. You unite the good qualities of your own with the better ones of masculine humanity—bravery and independence. I wish 4 ‘What???’ quickly. ‘“That you would let me embark with you in this mysterious crusade against your enemies. I have a strong arm—I know your heart is brave, but some time they might catch you napping. Anyhow, two are better than one.”’ Gypsy drops her head to one side, a habit peculiar to herself, and seems to cogitate. ‘Well, I don’t know why I shouldn’t, since it seems decreed by fate that we should share dangers, Gomichooksscom