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 naturalist enough to support a wife." "I have made no plans," he said,
quickly, "I have no purpose. I did not intend to tell you now that I
love you, but since I have said that, I will say also that with you to
fight for there could be no doubt about my success. I should be bound to
succeed. It would be impossible for me to fail. As for the years, I
would wait, no matter how many they should be." He spoke with such hot
earnestness that Margery involuntarily drew herself a little away from
him. At this the flush went out of his face. "Oh, Miss Dearborn," he
exclaimed, "don't think that I am like that man out there! Don't think
that I will persecute you if you don't wish to hear me; that I will
follow you about and make your life miserable. If you say to me that you
do not wish to see me again, you will never see me again. Say what you
please, and you will find that I am a gentleman." She could see that
now. She felt sure that if she told him she did not wish ever to see him
again he would never appear before her. But what would he do? She was
not in the least afraid of him, but his fierce earnestness frightened
her, not for herself, but for him. Suddenly a thought struck her.
"Martin," said she, "I don't doubt in the least that what you have said
to me about yourself is true. You are as good as other people, although
you do happen now to be a guide, and perhaps after a while you may be
very well off; but for all that you are a guide, and you are in Mr.
Sadler's employment, and Mr. Sadler's rights and powers are just like
gas escaping from a pipe: they are everywhere from cellar to garret, so
to speak, and you couldn't escape them. It would be a bad, bad thing for
you, Martin, if he were to hear that you make propositions of the kind
you have made to the ladies that he pays you to take out into the woods
to guide and to protect." Martin was on the point of a violent
expostulation, but she stopped him. "Now I know what you are going to sa