Lady Anne hastily sprang from her pillow, and fixed on Penrhyn eyes that glared with fire—that were positively appalling, as she exclaimed, in a voice which, though shrill, was not powerful.
"How dare you, sir, meddle with my affairs? be assured, I shall immediately inform Mr. Glentworth of your conduct. I am going to Paris in a fortnight or three weeks, and you must see what a figure you will cut in the eyes of your patron, when he hears of your misconduct."
"My orders from Mr. Glentworth are expressly to appropriate the sum of three hundred pounds to the payment of Lady Anne Granard's debts, giving her the overplus. I have paid the half of the sum where it was strictly due, and I have a claim on the other half myself. I did not intend to enforce it, but you treat me in a manner which compels me to do so; for if I am to have no credit for kindness, I will ensure it for regularity. You will be pleased, at the same time, to remember that you owe Louisa eighteen sovereigns."
"To say nothing of the board of my daughters, I presume, most generous merchant?"
Charles Penrhyn's cheek and eyes gave signal, as Bunyan would say, "of a storm in man-soul," but Louisa was hanging on his arm, and the way in which she pressed it recalled the resolution he had made on entering the house, and he answered coolly and drily—
