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first break at my minimum wage job guys!!!
#I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON#BUT I TUHINK I GIVE OFF A CONFIDENT VIBE CUZ PPL ARE LIKE IM SURE U CAN HANDLE IT!#and im like yea!! BUT I ACTUALLY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IS HAPPENING#WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO MAKE A REPORT IN EXCEL EVERYDAY I WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO SEL SILLY LITTLE TICKETS WAAAH#ok im fine#gotta grind thru it#đđđđđ#fun fact this is just the training day#im having my first official day on the start of summer season#so ill learn how to use the register on one of the most busy days of the year đ„°đ„°đ„°đ„°đ„°đ„°#god help me why cant i make silly anime drawings for a living#i mean i can but its not bery sustainable#ill be fine đȘđȘđȘđȘ GIVE ME THAT MINIMUM WAGEEE#personal
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Olla! As usual, I am wasting my time. I was scrolling over my youtube subs, and like damn I forgot these people exist. So this is a go through of list youtube channel I subs to;
Part 1: 'Educational'
I think I have grown to believe I could be a better person by watching shaitz. Since it's hard for me to get back to reading hence.
Adam Ragusea - his video not a obscure educational kind of video. He cooks! but he also rungkai-kan some science for reason why certain ingredients give this and that. Very interesting! He make a video about history of beer/cider something like that, and it very interesting. Idk i think the making of that involve a lot of food chemical, since alcohol itself is basic chemistry. So yeah. Kinda suck that this probably field that hard for me to get into lol.
Answer in Progress - very good! one of the host is very good at coding. I am very inspired to be like her lol. which ha ha...we'll see. I like when she make a programme to help her problem. which is very smart. like, we can do that??
AntsCanada - Ive been subscribe to this guy long time ago,,BUT varely concentrated in his video. think he's a very interesting guy, it just me. will find the time to understand. its like a documentary, but for ants. which sounds v kewl
Applied Science - the title say it all. honestly i just hope i watch them more lol
AsapScience - jarang tengok sudah, but i listen to their podcast often. interestinggg
Be Smart - lol same reason
Casually Explained - I forgot exactly why i subs to him
Climate Town - Sustainability kind of shitz! interesting
Curious Tangent - John Green recommend this to me. YES Specifically to ME. he whatsapp me one day, said, hey u, dila, watch this. haha joke, he rekomen kat video dia lah
Dad, how do I? - might be useful to me one day.....you know
Flavor Lab - they experiment with food! super interesting. wish im this smart.
Mental Floss
Philip DeFranco - news outlet. i can say i watch almost all his video since 2018-ish
sexplanation - AHHH she helps me a LOTT. kinda sad they have stop posting now. but i think their video is very evergreen for educational content
The Art Assignment - very interesting. she touch on the art history sometimes, which something very neww to me
Part 2: Leisure
Agung Hapsah - This GUY!! his video now like once in awhile. I guess he is bery busyy... which is GOOD!! But man I like his style of content. Just very beautiful and bonus point for his indo accent
Alex Ernst - He was very extreme in david dobrik's vlog. I dont think they talk anymore, which honestly i think thats good. or maybe they just dont show it to the internet. which make sense. his latest series was vlogmas lol. yeah sounds very simple, but he make a skit out of it. which is very good! the joke give 2012's kinda vibe. great one
Anna Akana - I think her content is very above young adult kind of video. very matured, might be very helpful once i turn 25 lol. I mean, I understand her point of view ad all, but man this is a lot of problem. I hope im dead lol
Arden Rose - Once in awhile kind of vlog content
Babish - I just...like watching people cook. and i like his style, also cute guy.
Bertie Gilbert - A vlog kind of style. I like it. also bonus point for english accent lol
brian david - He is the MEME guyy. but chiill one. i just like monotone kind of people lol
Drew Gooden - sort of same rzn with above guy lol
Evan Edinger - vlog kind of stuff. I can say I watch him quite regularly. helps that he post weekly on same day
Faline San - just love her
Fathia Izzati - also love her
jacksfilms - he have been posting so muchhh~~ which is good, but nak cari masa to finish it all grrr, make me left behind sometimes.
Nathan Zed - really love his passion and interest on pop culture, expecially music
Safiya Nygard
SNL - I didnt follow their vid, sometimes. usually i watch old one, the one got guy from Barry
vlogbrothers - well im just a fan doh
wheezywaiter - very interesting and i like how he make video with his family. i like his parents. i think i find out about him from anwar hadi. yes anwar also whasapp me and send me the link. lol joke he told everyone on his podcast.
thats itt
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Kotonari V - Train, Part Two
Read on AO3, if youâre into that.Â
AN: So, if youâve been following my side rants, you know that while I was working on this segment of the chapter, I wrote myself into a corner because I changed a plot point significantly. I had an outline, I had a planned story... and then it changed. What that means is that I have to reoutline the rest of the story, so part three of this chapter might take a little longer than usual. Comments and reblogs, especially questions are really helpful, so please feel free to ask anything - it will actually help me unfuck this story. Without further ado:
Train - Part Two
The Dark Prince snarled to himself, furious that his assault on the castle had failed so miserably. After seeing those reinforcements arrive, the darkness inside Vegeta knew the whole operation was a bust â but how? How had the castle guard assembled the Crownâs Battalion so quickly? Why had the King been on top of the castle? Why did he have those two, Nappa and Daiku, with him?
From all the memories that the malevolent force had stolen from Vegeta, it knew that the King should have been asleep. It knew that the King did not associate with Nappa. It knew that Daiku was, essentially, a celebrity brawler. Why this motley crew?
And most of all, The Dark Prince wondered: who was the purple haired boy who lead those elite Saiyans into battle?
He trudged along the ground, having extinguished his ki to disappear into the blackness created by the stormy night. So far, he had not been followed. The Dark Prince walked and walked, seeking answers in Prince Vegetaâs memory about The Boy who screamed his name.
Vegeta.
Fuck you. Get out of my head. Get out of my body.
Vegeta.
Fuck you.
Vegeta.
Fuck you.
Vegeta.
Fuck you.
Miles passed under the Princeâs feet as the darkness that drove him argued with his soul mired in the miasma. This, they had done before. The miasma, that malevolent intelligence spreading from an asteroid as it hurtled through the galaxy â engendering hate, fear, death and discord wherever it passed â it knew Vegeta well. It had wormed its way into his soul for years, but never had it been so thoroughly rebuked than when that woman came.
That woman.
That woman almost ruined everything. The brightness of her light forcing out all the shadows in Vegetaâs heart had almost ruined everything. The Dark Prince was glad she was dead.
Fuck you. Get out of my head.
Vegeta⊠who was that man?
 Tch. Just a boy. Also: fuck you. Get out of my head.
 Vegeta⊠Bulma is dead.
 Fuck you.
Vegeta, the true Vegeta, from the prison of his mind had realized many things in the days of his captivity. First, Bulma was not dead. He found himself⊠remembering? More than remembering, like reliving, like living for the first time, his favorite memories with his woman. The taste of the wine on the night he first realized he loved her. The sight of those celebratory explosives â fireworks â on his birthday. The terrible sound of Bulma falling down the stairs that day, how he surprised himself by singing to her to soothe her pain. The sweat and sunshine and honey smell of her hair on the night of the antefasting battle.  In every memory, he felt the Keiyaku opening more and more. If he thought it were safe â that this miasma wouldnât spread â he would reach through their bond right now to see her face.
He wondered if his mother was doing that on purpose â binding Bulmaâs soul to this world with memories that would bind his own. Mothers are terrifying. Pea was truly a master tactician⊠unless this was all by chance.
The second thing Vegeta realized was that the miasma needed a steady stream of reinforcement to maintain its hold on him. His rage, his insecurity, his feelings of inadequacy, his fear⊠it fed the miasma. The destruction that darkness wrought using him â the murder of that Namekian, the attack on his father â fed its appetites. As the Keiyaku opened again, Vegetaâs soul grew calmer, more determined. He spent hours just meditating, stuck inside himself, calming himself, focusing himself, while his body choked his father and murdered his friends.
However. Vegeta was certain now. Now that its plan to kill the King had gone wrong, cracks were starting to form in the dark hold it had over him. Without further acts of carnage, Vegetaâs true soul would become the stronger force, and he would expel it.
He would.
He just had to stop it from doing anything else in the meantime.
Vegeta.
Fuck you.
Who is the boy?
Fuck you.
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âOKAY!â The Boy snapped his eyes open, met with morning light streaming through the curtains. âThatâs enough of that memory!â His father had been lowering his mother to the bed, and as glad as he was to see them together and in love â that was far enough for any son. The storm clouds from the previous night had cleared â the sky was blue and clear, like his motherâs eyes.
Queen Pea snorted from her chair. âQuite the pair, arenât they?â She had one brow raised and pointed a finger down her throat in an exaggerated gesture of sickness. âSweet enough to gag you.â
The Boy laughed, smoothing his ki back over his sleeping mother after it had retracted in his haste to abandon the memory. âAre they always like that?â
âDepends. What did you see?â
The Boy repeated the memory, and the Queen laughed loudly, âOh DID they! That was my room, you know.â
âRude.â The Boy continued to chuckle.
âQuite.â The Queen studied The Boyâs face. âAre you⊠terribly angry with me?â
âWhy would I be angry?â
âIâŠâ the Queen trailed off, her guilt weighing down on her like stone. She looked down at Bulmaâs peaceful face. âI abandoned her.â
âQueen Pea,â The Boy met her gaze. âDid the King survive?â
âI did,â boomed the King, opening the door and dawdling the twin babies in his huge arms.
The Boy grinned. âThen everyone is alive!â He reached up to take himself from the King, who dangled the babe down. âEveryone is alive.â He looked around, from himself â little babe, so light and chubby, to his baby sister, his grandfather King and grandmother Queen, his mother sleeping peacefully. The morning light streaming through the window. âEveryone is alive. So, no, Queen Pea, Iâm not angry at all. We did what we had to do â all of us.â
Queen Pea smiled at that, and the King crossed over to put one arm around her. âSee. His motherâs son. If he took after Vegeta, heâd hold that grudge until the day he died.â
Everyoneâs alive, thought The Boy. Everyone survived last night. Maybe the future has already changed. He imagined what it would be like when he got home. Would everyone still be dead? Would he disappear? Would the rift close before he could get home? Would he have to relive his life in order to see how it all turned out? His brows knit together and he tried to puzzle out what he was doing, what he had done. What if the rift moved? What if he couldnât find his way back?
âNow you look like your father,â the King said, clapping The Boy on the back. âBrows all knit together, scowling.â
âSorry⊠I was just thinking. About the rift I came through, and how I really should have marked it or something⊠I was just wondering if Iâm ever going to get home.â
âToo big a thought,â came a voice from just outside the bedroom door frame, âfor an empty stomach.â Nappa pushed a cart heaped with fruit and rice and salted fish. âEverybody in this room needs to eat.â
Beri pushed in behind him, knocking him brusquely out of the way. âIncluding those babies, so give them here, my King. Prince.â Both grown men surrendered the little babes, and Beri hustled them off into the adjacent nursery to have their bottles. They needed motherâs milk, but the rich gâge milk would sustain them until they could eat more solid foods in a few months.
The King, Nappa, Queen and The Boy descended upon the cart of food like a pack of wolves, each starving. Queen Pea had been awake for days when the King had been injured â she looked a bit more rested, so she mustâve stolen a few hours sleep after the King was stable last night. The King and Nappa were both recovering from near-death injuries, though. The Boy wondered how they could be up and so energized already.
Around a mouthful of rice, he asked, âHow come you guys arenât,â he swallowed, âlike⊠dead?â
Nappa laughed, sputtering fish bits. âTakes more than that to keep me down! I love almost dyinâ.â
âYou what?â The Boy dropped his bowl in shock.
âSure, Iâll eat my wife out of house and home for the next week, but the benefits are unreal. I already feel like I could take that dummy by myself.â
âWhat.â
The King drained a glass of water. âWe get an enormous boost to our strength after a near death experience. Itâs in our genetics.â
âWe?â
âSaiyans.â
âSo, I..?â
Nappa burped. âShould be the same, or about. Want me to kick the shit out of you?â
Daiku stepped into the room, smacking Nappa upside the head making way for Dende next to him all in the same fluid motion. Dende greeted the room. âHello! Good morning!â
The Boy smiled at the little green stranger. âGood morning."
âHowâs your mother?â Dende asked.
The Boyâs soft lilac ki still flowed over her like mist, tying the two of them together. âI think sheâs okay.â
âLetâs have a look.â The little Namekian set his hands aglow and seemed to scan the woman on the bed. âOh! Four tethers! Thatâs a relief, we should be able to get it from here.â âWe? It?â The Boy frowned.
âYou gotta start getting up earlier, kid.â Daiku ruffled The Boyâs hair. âWe decided some stuff hours ago while you were in dreamland with your mom.â
âWhat stuff?â
âThe King and Queen sent the Crownâs Battalion to find Vegeta. Theyâll send scouts ahead, communicate by hawkers, and tell us where to find him. In the meantime, you and I, and these two,â he jerked his thumb up over his shoulder to point at the King and Nappa, âare heading in for as much training as we can get in.â
âTraining? Thatâs not going to make a difference, theyâll find him in a few hours.â
âYeah, gives us maybe three months? Six if he got pretty far ahead.â
âDid the lack of oxygen give you brain damage, Sensei? What are you talking about? Hours are hours, not months!â
Daiku laughed, joined by Nappa and even the Queen. âKid, you arenât the only one who likes to screw around with time.â
---
They finished their meal, and in hustled four absolutely enormous Namekians. Easily as tall as Daiku and the King, they wore clothes like Dendes. This one in purple, this one in red, this one in blue, the last in orange.
âIs this the woman?â âYes,â Queen Pea said. âSo you understand our trouble now.â
âYes. And how did your son come to be infected with this miasma?â the Namekian in purple demanded. âHe could have killed me! What will we do if the miasma spreads, if it escapes him? This whole planet could be in an uproar!â
âNow, now, brother!â Dende pulled at the older â or perhaps just larger â Namekianâs cape. âCanât you see their sorrows are enough without you yelling at everyone. You didnât die, so thatâs all well now. We are here to help, are we not?â
Piccolo gritted his teeth but said no more on the subject. âNail and I are here to guard this estate while you three,â he indicated Dende and the two Namekians wearing red and orange, âstabilize this womanâs soul and bring her back.â
âCorrect! And thanks for coming.â He grinned up at his hulking counterpart. âNow. If everyone who isnât stuck in the veil of the dead or a Namekian would please leave the room. We have our own way of doing this, and it must stay our own.â
The room, packed with four full grown Saiyans, plus The Boy and Beri and the babies was stuffy and cramped. Nappa and Daiku were itching to get out and train, so they didnât wait to be told twice. The King grabbed The Boy by the shoulders and wheeled him to the door next. âThe Namekians know what theyâre doing. We can trust them with your mother.â
Dende covered Bulma up with his own ki as The Boyâs receded. âI will take care of her,â Dende reassured him.
The Queen left next, exhausted from days of effort spent trying to save Bulma. She stole a glance back at Bulmaâs pale porcelain face, and at the little babies Beri was laying on Bulmaâs chest for a few moments. Then, the Queen padded through the hallway, ready to plunge headfirst into her own bed.
Beri lingered longest of all, staring down at her lady Princess and the babies. They should have a little time together, even if she isnât awake yet. The little Namekian cleared his throat after a few minutes, and Beri knew she could delay it no longer. She collected the babies and tucked Bulma into bed again. Sexless or not, Beri hated to leave the Princess alone in the room with all these unfamiliar faces.
Two of the Namekians followed her out of the room, closing the door behind them. One remained at the door, and the purple clad one removed himself to the front of the house to keep a lookout for trouble.
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All four men were falling down tired by the time they reached the training grounds. Each carried a heavy pack filled with gallons of water in addition to a massive trunk filled with food. âSensei, where are we going?â The Boy asked.
The had arrived at the massive, gleaming black marble that was the training ground. It was uncovered, outdoors, with four black pillars, one in each corner of the square âstageâ and one white tower in the dead center. The marble stage was not level with the ground beneath it, but elevated about three feet from it. The King stepped up onto the obsidian surface first, making directly for the center tower.
Nappa and Daiku popped up next, followed by The Boy. Instantly, he felt a difference in the pressure around him. It was hard to stand, hard to breathe. He locked his knees and wobbled, trying not to fall.
Daiku lifted the water pack off of The Boyâs shoulders while Nappa took his food trunk. The Boy felt lighter, but the pressure around him was still crushing the air from his lungs. He found himself hyperventilating, just trying to stay conscious. Daiku started to put an arm under The Boy to support him, but Nappa swatted his hand away. âDonât. He must do this on his own.â
Daiku and Nappa made for the center tower to join the King, leaving The Boy in his agony.
âNappa.â Daiku shot a deadly look at the bald Saiyan. âIf you ever try to stand between me and that cub again, I will kill you.â
âYeah, yeah,â Nappa waved him off, striding over to the King. âAre we ready here?â The King had his hand on flat stone of the white center column. âThat depends.â The King looked to Daiku. âWill that boy survive this? Once I shut the way, weâll be in here until Beri or the Queen comes to shut it down from the outside.â
Daiku grit his teeth. âHe will survive this. He has survived worse.â
The King agreed, and slid his hand vertically up the smooth surface of the white column. The column glowed green and from its pinnacle, a hexahedronical dome began to sprout and spread out to each of the four black pillars in the corners of the training ground. The green glow went up, up through the center column and gathered itself into a green bulb at the top of the pillar, outside the dome.
The walls from the dome transitioned from translucent like glass to opaque, impenetrable walls. They were closed in until someone broke the green ki bulb at the top of the tower. Now, time would move at a snailâs pace inside the structure but continue on unchanged outside. A day outside would be a year within, each hour would give them 15 days to train. If it took the Crownâs Battalion five hours to locate Vegeta, they would have nearly three months inside.
âHow shall we pair?â The King asked as the dome solidified.
âBy strength. I will go with the King,â Nappa asserted, âYou go with the cub, Daiku.â
âInteresting that you think yourself the stronger, Nappa.â Daiku squared up for a fight, but the King tapped his boot and interrupted.
âTest that later,â the King interjected. âItâs best that you go with the boy now.â
The Boy was still at the far edge, having dropped to his knees, struggling to remain conscious. Daiku strode over to him â the King was right. Daiku had been sealed in the training grounds many times before in preparation and conditioning for his fights. He remembered tasting blood for a month after he left the first time â the first time, he had lasted only seconds inside before his own master broke the bulb from the outside.
âBoy.â The Boy looked up at Daiku from the floor. âSen â sei â I â canât â breathe.â He could feel the blood pooling in his legs, his heart straining against the force around him. His lungs struggled to pull air.
âYouâre going to die if you lay there.â Daiku was blunt. âThe gravitational field in the training grounds has always been more powerful, and sealing the dome intensifies the effects tenfold. Youâre experiencing gravity at 30 times Vegetaseiâs normal.â
The Boy gasped and wheezed.
âIf you donât start to manually pump your heart, youâre going to die.â
âH-o-www?â The Boy rasped.
âThe same way you manually breathe. Youâre thinking about your breathing right now, forcing yourself to inhale and exhale. You need to override the part of your brain controlling your heart, and you need to pump it manually until youâre stronger. Itâll take about a week.â
The Boyâs eyes widened with fear. How the hell was he supposed to do that? Override his brain? Manually control his heart?
âIâm serious. I had to do it. Nappa had to do it. The King had to do it. The Queen had to do it. You have to do it.â
The Boyâs vision began to tunnel, blackening around pinpricks of vision. His world spun, his vision swam, Daikuâs voice sounded tinny and far away. He balled his hand into a fist and SLAM â punched himself in the chest, hard â hard enough to force the blood through the chambers of his heart. The chambers refilled with blood once more, squeezed in by the extraordinary pressure around him.
He thought of his sisterâs face, eyes hollow as she died on the floor before him. SLAM.
He thought of her bones, disgraced and dishonored, hung like a horror house prop outside the castle. SLAM.
He thought of his father, his real father, the one who sung to his mother and loved her so deeply. SLAM.
He thought of Beri, dead in his time. SLAM.
Mother. SLAM
Father. SLAM
Sister. SLAM
Friends. SLAM
SLAM
SLAM
SLAM
The Boy struggled to his feet, still hyperventilating to keep his lungs working, face turning fiery with the effort.
SLAM
SLAM
SLAM
Daiku grinned as The Boy perspired and punched, and heaved one leaden foot after the other, again and again until he was walking. âThatâs right. Just walk the perimeter for now.â
SLAM
Step
SLAM
Step
SLAM
Step
I didnât come here to die. The Boy was determined to survive.
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Chapter 17-- [Untitled]
Written by âThe Countessâ
(In which Mr. McClure confronts his daughterâs husband.)
[Editorâs note: the original chapter did not have a title.]
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âClyde! My darling! How came you here? I saw you enter, half an hour ago and thought you were ministering to some poor, wretched invalid. I came over to find you and have been stumbling through dingy halls and turning rusty knobs ever since, and here--â
For the first time Mr. McClureâs eyes fall on Jim Paxton. He starts forward, his eyes riveted on the dark, handsome face, his hands clinched.
âYou here!â
âYes, father!â The younger man turns with an easy nonchalance surprising under the circumstances. âI had an engagement with my wife--â
âYour wife! And what is my child doing here? Clyde, what does this mean?â
With an exclamation born of the most intense suffering Clyde throws herself at her fatherâs feet and implores his forgiveness.
My forgiveness?â Mr. McClure passes a hand over his forehead and looks at her, bewildered, half-conscious of approaching evil. âExplain yourself, girl! But leave this man first and come home with me!â
âThatâs it! Oh, thatâs it, papa! I canât leave him! I can never-leave-him-again!â The words are the essence of despairing frenzy. âHe is my husband!â
McClure started and would have fallen had it not been for Clydeâs arms now thrown around his neck. The golden head with its tiny bonnet slipping away from it, lay on his shoulder. She seemed years older than the girl he had treasured as his one idol for eighteen years.
He gasped. âMorningstar-- Paxton, you villain, is this true?â
âIt is! She does not seem particularly happy, does she? But sheâs a brick and I admire her spunk.â
âInsolence!â
The gold-glinted head is raised. Two eyes, like summer skies dripping with sunny showers, gaze into the ruined manâs face.
âPapa! I loved him! Donât blame him alone!â
âWhen-- when were you married?â
âOver a year ago! It was a love match, I assure you!â and Paxton smiles grimly.
McClure pushes Clyde from him and confronts the man, his brain reeling, his strong frame trembling with passionate anger.
âYou fiend! Not content with the bold-faced bank robbery-- not satisfied with dragging one of the pillars of Wall Street into the gutter of bankruptcy-- longing to break me down more than you have already-- you must needs marry my daughter! You must carry away my idol! My one sustaining prop! You have taught her to deceive me-- her father! Scoundrel! The rest counted as naught compared to this!
He raises his arm as though he would crush, with one blow, all life from the craftily smiling man before him.
A wild, despairing shriek from Clyde stops him.
Paxton turns to his beautiful victim. âClyde, do you want me rearrested? Is this your wifely obedience and love?â he whispers imploringly, looking into her face with eyes as large with pleading and anger as those of a wild beast brought to bay. âThink of the notoriety-- the position you will place yourself in--â
âClyde, come home immediately! Yes, you villain, that smile will soon be forever lost to view! You shall suffer as I alone can make you! Clyde, darling-- donât look so wild! You have done wrong but I love you still! When he is justly punished, we may resume our old place in the world-- we--â
âYou forget, sir,â begins Paxton, with blanched face and trembling lips-- all such men are cowards when tested--Â âYou forget that, as my wife, Clyde owes her first obedience to me. Aside from that, Mr. McClure, do you want to make her wretched-- do you want to bring her into unenviable notoriety-- do you--â
âMake her wretched, you devil? Who would more successfully accomplish that end than you? Clyde was married without my consent when she was under your influence-- she was a mere child--â
âShe is of age now. Let us ask her to decide the case!â
âWith all my heart!-- Clyde, my dear little daughter! I forgive you, knowing how plausible this villain may be-- how I was betrayed myself-- I blame not you alone, my darling, for this misalliance. I am to blame for guarding my jewel too well. But we will forget the past-- you and I-- you can obtain a divorce easily from this fellow, who could only make you unhappy-- I could prosecute him, regain my old position in the world, and then-- Clyde, answer me! I have idolized you from babyhood-- come to me!â
She ran toward him, her bright hair falling from its Psyche knot and rippling over her somber gown like cloth-of-gold.
âPapa!â
âYou see what her choice is!â
âI have not made my plea, sir!â With haughty grace and the assurance born of a long and careful study of Clydeâs vulnerable points, Paxton advanced and, laying his hand on Clydeâs arm-- seeming not to notice her recoil, began:
âClyde, is it over a year since you and I promised to love, cherish, and honor one another. You told me you loved me. I offered to give you up to any one your guardian might select for your husband but you would not hear of it. You promised to obey me and serve me and all the service I have required was for you to keep my whereabouts secret for the last seven weeks-- weeks of peril to me--â
âPeril richly deserved,â interrupted Clydeâs father hotly. âClyde, you have looked to this thiefâs safety when your father, to whom you owe all, was struggling to right himself in the eyes of his creditors! I see now why you were so anxious to get the position at the World office! It was to keep all news of this villain from my friends and the detectives. Speak, girl, is this true?â
âPapa! Papa!â
Paxton, with the theatrical instinct so natural to him, seeing a chance for an effective scene, rushed to his wife as her father thrust her from his arms.
âClyde, my darling! My wife! You have had no opportunity to test my love for you yet, but I swear, by my fatherâs honored name, that if you come to me we shall be happy!â
âYour fatherâs name?â sneered McClure, totally beside himself with rage. âWhat is it, pray?â
âBerys, Lord Paxton, of Cuthbertshire, England.â
âAnother lie!â
âI can prove it in any way you ask.â
âThatâs neither here nor there! I shall inquire into the matter later, perhaps, to recover my stolen money, but now we must decide on my childâs future. My child! I believed you pure as an angel and you have deceived me as basely as this rascal! More basely, Clyde. I trusted you as I do my God. But, false or true, I owe you a fatherâs protection. Will you come to me?â
âA wifeâs first allegiance is to her husband,â murmured Paxton, in rich, full tones, adding, with his earnest, handsome eyes looking straight into Clydeâs, âMy darling!â
âYour fascination is that of a snake, you dog!â and McClure placed his hand over his daughterâs eyes as though he would shield her from the fixed stare of the magnificent eyes.
âSpeak, my wife!â
He had nothing more to do with McClure. He was shrewd enough to know that if he gained Clyde, her father, no matter how angry he might be, would dismiss all idea of prosecution, for her sake, so Paxton addressed all his words-- all his fascinating looks-- to Clyde. It was remarkable-- the influence this hawk had for the poor little dove. Even now, when sheltered in her fatherâs arms, knowing how that father had been betrayed, how she herself had been victimized-- even now, I say, she felt the wild, passionate, romantic love of last year come back to her in all its intensity.
âSpeak, Clyde!â
âPapa,â she cried, casting aside his hand and looking shyly into Paxtonâs eyes. âPapa, I love you! Iâm sorry if I was false to you. I--â
âYou will come back to me?â
âNo. I will go with my husband!â
Paxton stretches out his arms and she falls, fainting, into them.
There is a sharp, quick oath, a moan, and poor broken-hearted McClure has left them alone together.
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