"Did you really say Leoline was alive
and well?"
"And waiting for you - yes, I did, and I repeat it; and the
sooner you get back to town, the sooner you will see her; so
don't loiter - "
"Ormiston, what do you mean! Is it possible I can see her
to-night?"
"Yes, it is; the dear creature is waiting for you even now. You
see, after we got to the house, and she had consented to become a
little rational, mutual explanations ensued, by which it appeared
she had ran away from Sir Norman Kingsley's in a state of frenzy,
had jumped into the river in a similarly excited state of mind,
and was most anxious to go down on her pretty knees and thank the
aforesaid Sir Norman for saving her life. What could any one as
gallant as myself do under these circumstances, but offer to set
forth in quest of that gentleman? And she promptly consented to
sit up and wait his coming, and dismissed me with her blessing.
And, Kingsley, I've a private notion she is as deeply affected by
you as you are by her; for, when I mentioned your name, she
blushed, yea, verily to the roots of her hair; and when she spoke
of you, couldn't so much as look me in the face - which is, yea
must own, a very bad symptom.
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