. The amusements of a man of fashion . pleadings, harder, perliaps, tobear because the innocent child-heart hadbeen so grievously torn in the effort to with-stand them. Often in the lonely nightwould she start from her slumbers, imagin-ing she felt the pressure of his arm thrownround her, his passionate kiss on her lips ;and in her dreams it seemed that she wasyielding; that she clung more closely to hisembrace, instead of repulsing him withhorror. Again, in her fevered imagination,she was lying on his breast, his hot breathfanning her cheek ; and again, with a wildsob of agony, she would call
. The amusements of a man of fashion . pleadings, harder, perliaps, tobear because the innocent child-heart hadbeen so grievously torn in the effort to with-stand them. Often in the lonely nightwould she start from her slumbers, imagin-ing she felt the pressure of his arm thrownround her, his passionate kiss on her lips ;and in her dreams it seemed that she wasyielding; that she clung more closely to hisembrace, instead of repulsing him withhorror. Again, in her fevered imagination,she was lying on his breast, his hot breathfanning her cheek ; and again, with a wildsob of agony, she would call on her grand-fathers name. Poor Minnie, she had paid very dearlyfor her trusting credulity. Now, as she satleaning over her little dressing-table withsomething tightly clasped in her hand, thereminiscences of that terrible past rose up WATCHING THROUGH THE NIGHT. 31 bodily before her, and there was a namelessdread in the startled glance and colourlesslip as she murmured to herself— Whose is it? What does it mean?How came it here ?. CHAPTEE IV. AT THE STUDIO.
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