Madame, perhaps in England thou mayst
have known my brother. If that is so, I ask thee to speak for me to his
Excellency. My life is in danger, and I am too young to go as my brother
went. I do not wish to die in middle age, as my brother died."
He had gone too far. In David's mind there was no suspicion that Nahoum
knew the truth. The suggestion in his words had seemed natural; but, from
the first, a sharp suspicion was in the mind of Hylda, and his last words
had convinced her that if Nahoum did not surely know the truth, he
suspected it all too well. Her instinct had pierced far; and as she
realised his suspicions, perhaps his certainty, and heard his words of
covert insult, which, as she saw, David did not appreciate, anger and
determination grew in her. Yet she felt that caution must mark her words,
and that nothing but danger lay in resentment. She felt the everlasting
indignity behind the quiet, youthful eyes, the determined power of the
man; but she saw also that, for the present, the course Nahoum suggested
was the only course to take.
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