I'll humble her! I'll
do it--I'll do it--as sure as there's a moon in the sky!"
CHAPTER XXIX.
AT WATCH.
Sanguine as Victor Carrington had been, confidently as he had
calculated upon the fascination which Paulina had exerted over Douglas
Dale, he was not prepared for the news contained in Miss Brewer's
promised letter, which reached him punctually, a few hours after
Paulina had become the affianced wife of Douglas Dale. This was indeed
success beyond his hopes. He had not expected this result for some
days, at the very earliest, and the surprise and pleasure with which he
learned it were almost equal. Carrington did not believe in good; he
absolutely distrusted and despised human nature, and he never dreamed
of imputing Madame Durski's conduct to anything but coquetry and
fickleness. "She's on with the new love, beyond a doubt," said he to
himself, as he read Miss Brewer's letter; "whether she's off with the
old is quite another question, and rests with him rather than with her,
I fancy."
Victor Carrington's first move was to present himself before Madame
Durski on the following day, at the hour at which she habitually
received visitors. He took up the confidential conversation which they
had had on the last occasion of their meeting, as if it had not been
dropped in the interval, and came at once to the subject of Douglas
Dale.
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