Tales and Ballads of Wearside Author:John Green General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: W. Scott Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select... more » from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XII. " And if there be a human tear, From passion's dross refined and clear, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head." -- The Lady of the Lake. HEDVILLE was deeply affected on witnessing the tender meeting between Mr. Maxwell and his daughter. Flora flung herself weepingly on Kenard's breast, while in a voice half choked by sobs she said -- " Oh, my dear father, how glad I am to see you once again; but oh, great God ! what danger hangs over you even now !" " Cheer up, my dear child," Maxwell replied, soothingly, while the big tears trickled down his manly cheeks; " let us put our trust in an all-wise Providence ; all may yet be well." Chedville took Flora's hand, and pressing it, he said, " Can you trust me, Miss Maxwell?" " I can, Monsieur D'Aubray," she replied, returning the pressure feebly ; " you will do all you can for my poor father's safety ?" " I will save him, Flora," he said in a whisper, " or perish in the attempt." Maxwell and Chedville retired for the purpose of changing their wet clothing, and soon returned again to the dining room, when the former having summoned Mr. Marley and the servants to his presence, addressed them as follows -- " I rely with confidence on the good feeling which has mutually subsisted between us hitherto, and do not hesitate to place myself entirely in your hands. I need hardly tell you -- for you are already cognisant of the fact -- that I have been engaged in an enterprise of which the existing Government of this country totally disapproves ; and that the knowledge of my being her...« less