Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 207: what you’re looking at

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“No, Chester; whatever you have to say to me, you will say to me here and now, and as briefly as pos- gible,for I have guests awaiting me,” she returned, frigidly. Then she added, with a note of passion in her tone, ‘Ido not see why you need pursue me thus. Why notletme alone? You have nearly been the means of my deatl once, and you endanger my safety and good name by this persisteut persecu- tion.” “Why? Can you ask, Helena, when you know how I love you—that you are the life of my life?’ “Yes, you have remarked something to that effect several times before,” she retorted, sarcastically ; *butT tell you I wil not be watclied and -hunted— you have no right to follow me thus.” “No right? T have every right, Helena,” was the reply, in asad voice, accompanied by a heavy sigh. “T have no wish to persecute you, to wake you un- happy; but you know that, by virtue of all that has passed, I have a perfect right to seek you wherever you are and whenever I choose. You thought [ could not find you when you were flitting from place to place in this country; but I did, as Il proved to you at Kingston. You thought to escape me again when you came here; but, Helena, this world is not large enough for you to hide yourselr from me—my love would guide me to you by instinct.” “Your love!” she repeated, bitterly, and giving vent to alittle mocking laugh that made her com- panion catch his breath with a quick gasp of pain. “Yes, my love,” he returned, firmly; ‘you know that it is as true as truth itself, andas pure as ever existed in the heart of an honest man. Helena, when do you intend to do what is right?” “Your ideas of right differ from mine”) she angrily retorted. ‘‘Do you consider it rizht to force me into