Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 77: what you’re looking at

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- A MAN’S REVENGE. "9 scorn of his look, and would have sunk under the revulsion of feeling had he not upheld her. “ Will you not make me happy, when I ask so small a favor 2” he continued, mockingly. : It was only for a moment the woman quailed; for. a mo- ment she endured terrible pain at the realization that she had lost for ever all hope of the love she coveted; rage at haying _ been led into betraying her own feelings turned her face as © white as her dress. | “Tt must give you great pleasure to seek that kind of re- venge on a woman,” she said, with a little, spiteful laugh. “Tt does give me a sort of pleasure,” he slowly replied. “T know there is meanness in revenge, but I am not wholly above it. J find it sweet—after all I have suffered. If it were my angel-wife, now, she would be too noble, I know. She would rather pray God to forgive her unnatural sister. But Iam a man-—with a man’s passions ; I can not do it.” “ Luke Bryant,” said Annette, desperately resolved not yet e up all, to deny all charges however substantiated, “for what would you be revenged ? What new suspicion have you in your brain ? I think I recognize that paper as being like some in Mary’s portfolio. If you have got up any theory that this scribbling is mine—that I have been practicing for- gery, and a thousand other crimes—that the judge and jury, and the world at large, have made fools of themselves, that every body is wrong, and only your saintly Mary right—why, speak out. I can bear any thing from a man brave enough to fool a woman into confessing her love, for the sake of laughing at her.” “There is no ] to giv aughter in my heart, girl. It’s been a long time since any one has heard me laugh. Though I could laugh at myself, now, to see what an idiot I have been.” “Don't under-rate yourself, Mr. Bryant. Some very smart ' men have been duped by women ” | “ Annette, you have taken ample revenge against one who never harmed you, against the gentlest, most loving of sisters. I do not complain of the agony you have caused me, If you have done any of this through the hope of some time winning my favor, know that all such hope is ended. .,The reparation I now demand of you is that you shall tell me comiclooolks.comn