Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 44: what you’re looking at

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36 THE VIRGINIAN UOODWINKED. CHAPTER IV. THE VIRGINIAN HOODWINKED. The girl remains wonderfully calm under such cir- cumstances; but it is what Bob has really expected, after seeing her actions during that trying period when the eager flames rolled after them in the woods. Though full of anxiety, she has the strength to hold up a picture representing some comical hunting scene, and her merry laugh rings through the room. ‘“You have a story to tell me, Bob Pemberton ?”’ ““Ves, but not now, not here. Oh! if I had but known Gypsy Gordon was the party I came to find what an opportunity I had to relate the singular adventure that befell me not long since, a recital closely connected with the fate of that strange old man you called grandfather.’’ ‘“Then we must find the opportunity, for hear it I shall. Yes, your news has opened my eyes in more than one respect—I can give a Yankee guess why Cousin Guy is here.”’ ‘“To forestall the coming of the news—to look out for his share of the legacy.”’ ‘‘And this queer old Frenchman who makes so many faces and wears such gaudy cravats, strutting up and down like a turkey cock—what has he to do with it all?”’ ‘‘Monsieur Merle is a lawyer—he is on the track CoOnnicooolks.onn