The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 313: what you’re looking at

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296 REYNOLDS’ WORKS sincere, and, so far as she could perceive, he had not practised any deception toward her. But a circumstance which she had foreseen now happened in the course of a day or two: this was that the count informed her of his intention to under- take another journey across the Pyrenees. “This time,’’ she at once said, “ you must permit me to accompany you. Ii there be dangers, I will share them.” | ‘And it is for this very reason, dearest, that you must not accompany me,’ was his immediate response, accom- panied by caressing manifestations of affection. “I beseech you,” persisted Juliana, ‘‘ to let me go with you on the present occasion. Besides, I long to see the place which sooner or later will be our home. I have hitherto con- cealed, if not altogether subdued, my impatience — ”’ ‘“ And you must continue to do so for a short space longer,” interrupted her husband. ‘“‘ You cannot accompany me now, my dearest wife; it would perhaps seriously compro- mise my salety. I expect to receive some tidings of a nature favourable to our hopes, and trust that in a very short time there will no longer be any necessity for stealthy visits to my ancestral home.’’ ‘’ Promise me, then, promise me faithfully,” said Juliana, “that if circumstances should compel you to pay another stealthy visit, after this one, to your estates, you will suffer me to accompany you.” ‘“T promise faithfully,’ responded her husband, and having embraced her, he once again took his departure on horseback, but unattended and alone. CONNIE DOOKS (E(0)