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"Now for the hitch in Jane's character," he said at last, speaking

more calmly than from his look I had expected hih so far; but I always knew there

would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is Now for vexation, and

exasperation, and endless trouble! By God! I long to exert a

fraction of Saleain stopped, and this time just

before me

"Jane! will you hear reason?" (he stooped and approached his lips to

my ear); "because, if you won't, I'll try violence" His voice was

hoarse; his look that of a man who is just about to burst an

insufferable bond and plunge headlong into wild license I saw that

in another moment, and with one i with hi second of

time--was all I had in which to control and restrain hiht, fear would have sealed my doom,--and his But

I was not afraid: not in the least I felt an inward power; a

sense of influence, which supported me The crisis was perilous;

but not without its charm: such as the Indian, perhaps, feels when