A medley of motives warred in her, and it was certainly not one of the least of these that she knew herself to be passionately in love with Capes; at moments she had a giddy intimation that he was beginning to feel keenly interested in her. CHAPTER II. " "Why, surely you don't think your guests would steal them," observed Rachel, archly. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. She did not therefore reveal to him that he had guaged her with accuracy. For a time they were very difficult. What a contrast did the lovely scene she now gazed upon present to the squalid neighbourhood she had recently quitted! On all sides, expanded prospects of country the most exquisite and most varied. Her evident terror and distress reinforced the tale he told. There’s that old gentleman at the end of the table—Bullding his name is. His face changed and she saw, with a stab at her heart, the dawning of irritation in his eyes. “You say that he is alive. “You yourself have decided that—apart from the question of Annabel.
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