When London Sleeps — page 69: what you’re looking at

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64 | WOMAN PROPOSES. his heart he longed that she were a man, so that he could give the answer to her insults that they deserved. | — But he was forced to crush back his anger, and deal his blow only in words, ‘‘But now I pitied you,’’? he said. ‘*Don’t make me despise you. As for your threats, they are but dle words tome. You are a’woman, and, although - seemingly you have lost some of the sweetest attri- butes of your sex, still, as a man, Iam bound to look upon you with consideration, with indulgence. ‘But,’’? with stern intonation. ‘‘I warn you, even these will have their limit, and I will show neither mercy nor pity to those who attempt to harm the woman I love!”’ 'Heturned abruptly from her, and walked away up the incline which led to the heights above. Hilda, with despair and anguish in her eyes, watched him until he had disappeared. Then she flung herself, face forward, down upon _the grass, in the shadow of the rock, a shadow over her, which was never to be lifted. She had staked all, and lost! comicbooks.com |