He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and
his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every
lineament. I quailed momentarily -- then I rallied. Soft scene,
daring demonstration, I would not have; and I stood in peril of
both: a weapon of defence must be prepared -- I whetted my tongue:
as he reached me, I asked with asperity, "whom he was going to
marry now?"
"That was a strange question to be put by his darling Jane."
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