[Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookNina Balatka CHAPTER I 29/29
Father, I know, wishes that you should have all that is your own.
He would leave the house to-morrow if you desired it." "He is welcome to remain there." "And now, Anton, good-night." "Good-night, Nina." "When shall I see you again ?" "When you please, and as often.
Have I not said that you are light and heat to me? Can the sun rise too often for those who love it ?" Then she held her hand up to be kissed, and kissed his in return, and went silently down the stairs into the street.
He had said once in the course of the conversation--nay, twice, as she came to remember in thinking over it--that she might do as she would about telling her friends; and she had been almost craftily careful to say nothing herself, and to draw nothing from him, which could be held as militating against this authority, or as subsequently negativing the permission so given.
She would undoubtedly tell her father--and her aunt; and would as certainly demand from her uncle those documents of which Anton Trendellsohn had spoken to her..
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