CHAPTER I. Her mother informed her of the betrothal on the first painful day of her menarche, shortly after her eleventh birthday. It was free of leering men, unthinkable punishments, and human evil. "Perhaps you don't know that this Darrell so contrived matters, that your child should be mistaken for his own; by which means it had a narrow escape from a tight cravat, I can assure you. "No," replied Jonathan, "I'll not take you at your word, as regards the latter proposition. "Go to the Iron Hold, Austin, and tell two of the partners to bring another padlock of the largest size, and the heaviest handcuffs they can find. I thought I’d see Paris, do the thing—like a toff. "Well—well," grumbled Jonathan, "I suppose I must be content. What would happen to her? Would her soul be shaken, twisted, hypnotized?—as it had been those other times? Music—that took out of her the sense of reality, whirled her into the clouds, that gave to her will the directless energy of a chip of wood on stormy waters. Aunt and niece regarded each other silently. .
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