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Mr. Rodney's face being of that rare kind that is as tender as it is manly, and by right of its beauty demands confidence, the old man (who dearly loves his own voice) is encouraged to proceed.,"Yes; but you have been crying, darling! What has happened?","How long do you intend to banish yourself from civilized life?","Now you speak sensibly. The sooner you begin to hate me the better.","I am in no pain," says Mona, crimson with shame and mortification. "You mistake everything. I have not even a scratch on me; and—I have no shoes or stockings on me either, if you must know all!","Not so much so that I cannot help you to cross over in safety, if you will only trust yourself to me," replies he.,The old woman smiled again.,"You will get murdered," says his mother, quite as indolently, half opening her eyes, which are gray as Geoffrey's own. "They always kill people, with things they call pikes, or burn them out of house and home, over there, without either rhyme or reason.",At this point, Geoffrey—who has been hunting all the morning—enters the room with Captain Rodney.,"Thank you," replies he stiffly; "yet, after all, I think I should bet upon my own chance.","By and you will think differently," says Mona, believing he alludes to his surrender of the Rodney property "You will get over this disappointment.",And then she falls upon her knees again, and Geoffrey in the background, though unseen, kneels too; and Mona, in a broken voice, because she is crying very bitterly now, whispers some words of comfort for the dying..