Whately. "The result might have been very
disastrous, and in any event would have been horrible. It was a
brave, sensible thing to do, and you will find that Madison will
think so, too."
Mad Whately, however, was in anything but a judicial mood.
CHAPTER XIX
A GIRL'S APPEAL
Miss Lou was too well acquainted with, her cousin not to recognize
evidences of almost ungovernable rage during the brief moment he had
paused at the veranda. She looked significantly at his mother, whose
face was pale and full of an apprehension now uncalled for, since
the prospect of an immediate battle had passed away. "She is afraid
of him herself, her own son, and yet she would marry me to him," the
girl thought bitterly.
Miss Lou was mistaken. Her aunt had fears only FOR her son, knowing
how prone he was to rash, headlong action when almost insane from
passion. The girl, however, was elated and careless. She justly
exulted in the act by which she had baffled the vengeance of
Perkins, and she had ceased to have the anxieties of a bitter
Southern partisan.
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