The Price He Paid — page 153: what you’re looking at

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144 DR. BRUNNOW, JR., TO BE CONVERTED. secret sorrow which was not to find utterance in words. } “Forgive me, if I failed to read you aright,” con- tinued George, with an ever-increasing tenderness ; ~“T acknowledge it, I have had my doubts. I have looked forward with fear and trembling to the in- evitable collision with your family. Now I see that you too can feel profoundly, now I believe in you fully and completely; I believe that you will be con- stant in your love, even though a Baron von Raven, armed with all his high authority, should do his best to come between us.” Gabrielle started at these last words, and raised her downcast eyes to his face. The look was one George could not decipher—a look of mingled anx- iety, pain, and touching appeal; but the next mo- ment all this was drowned in a rush of tears which could no longer be withheld. “My poor Gabrielle!” whispered the young man, bending over her; “you are so little used to care and trouble; and to think that it should be my fate, mine! to bring them on you. But we were pre- pared, you know, to make a fight for our love. Now the time for the struggle has come. We must en- dure and conquer. Perhaps Herr von Raven may one day repent having played Providence in this manner. He is sending out one more enemy into the world, and not so insignificant a one as he sup- poses.” Gabrielle’s tears were stayed now. She drew her > hand away from him. “You are—you are enemies now?” she asked. = “| have long been Raven’s opponent. Donot ask me why. I will not accuse your guardian and relative to you. The charges must be brought be- fore another forum. But, believe me, he has chal- lenged hatred and enmity in many quarters. He has so used his power that it has proved baneful to all beneath his rule, and will, assuredly, one day prove baneful to himself. Dr. Brunnow did not warn me in vain against the magnetic influence of that strangeman. It has often beguiled me into admiring there where I should have condemned — (E(0) Gomicbooks