"Oh, the sacrifice of leaving you," he faltered; "the very world is dark to me without you.

Ah, well, I must earn the right to come again." He summoned all his manhood, and marched to the door.

There he seemed to turn calmer all of a sudden, and said firmly, yet humbly, "I'll try and show you, sir, what love can do." "And I'll show you what love can suffer," said Rosa, folding her beautiful arms superbly.
It was not in her to have shot such a bolt, except in imitation; yet how promptly the mimic thunder came, and how grand the beauty looked, with her dark brows, and flashing eyes, and folded arms! much grander and more inspired than poor Staines, who had only furnished the idea.
But between these two figures swelling with emotion, the representative of common sense, Lusignan pere, stood cool and impassive; he shrugged his shoulders, and looked on both lovers as a couple of ranting novices he was saving from each other and almshouses.
For all that, when the lover had torn himself away, papa's composure was suddenly disturbed by a misgiving.

He stepped hastily to the stairhead, and gave it vent.

"Dr.Staines," said he, in a loud whisper (Staines was half way down the stairs: he stopped).