This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... I know that Sibyl was as good as mine, that she was ready to love me, when this--this fellow by some devilish means began to win her away.' Walking up and down, he told his father how strange the girl had been, and above all how on that Sunday afternoon she had been so kind to him, and how and where he had seen her on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... I know that Sibyl was as good as mine, that she was ready to love me, when this--this fellow by some devilish means began to win her away.' Walking up and down, he told his father how strange the girl had been, and above all how on that Sunday afternoon she had been so kind to him, and how and where he had seen her on the evening of the same day. 'Father, ' he said, 'you know Sibyl; you know that she isn't a girl to encourage one man and let another make love to her--that she would sooner die than make secret appointments with anyone. I have been half mad and half ready to doubt her; but, when I think of her and try to see her face as it looked on that Sunday afternoon, I am as sure that she is true as that there is a sun in heaven. And since she is true, this wretchedness must be due to him and his devilry. That's what I felt when I went at him; I felt as if I were striking at one of his devilish West Indian snakes, and I wanted to kill him.' Old Tom shuddered at this frank confession, and shook his head the more; he was in sore perplexity. 'What do you mean by devilry?' he asked. 'What do you suspect the fellow of?' 'I don't know, ' said his son; 'I know nothing about these things;. it seems to me that I know nothing about anything, and it's that that makes me feel so weak and makes me mad. The night I met him at dinner at Goring House he was full of stories of damnable Creole trickeries and juggleries; and I thought they were all lies and swagger.' 'Of course, ' said his father; 'and so they are.' 'I have heard men talk of mesmerism and magnetism and things; but I never paid any attention to them.' 'Quite right too, ' said old Tom Fane. 'But that's the sort of thing I feel about, it, ' said his son hotly. 'The fellow has made me creep from the first; I fel
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