call, a dutiful) heart, tired and teased out of your own will.

I have no patience, Sir, to be thus constrained. Must I never be at
liberty to follow my own judgment? Be the consequence what it may, I
will not be thus constrained.

And then, freeing my hand, I again offered the key to the door.

Down the ready kneeler dropt between me and that: And can you, can you,
Madam, once more on my knees let me ask you, look with an indifferent eye
upon the evils that may follow? Provoked as I have been, and triumphed
over as I shall be, if your brother succeeds, my own heart shudders, at
times, at the thoughts of what must happen: And can yours be unconcerned?
Let me beseech you, dearest creature, to consider all these things; and
lose not this only opportunity. My intelligence--

Never, Mr. Lovelace, interrupted I, give so much credit to the words of a
traitor. Your base intelligencer is but a servant. He may pretend to
know more than he has grounds for, in order to earn the wages of
corruption. You know not what contrivances I can find out.

I was once more offering the key to the lock, when, starting from his
knees, with a voice of affrightment, loudly whispering, and as if out of
breath, they are at the door, my beloved creature! and taking the key
from me, he fluttered with it, as if he would double lock it. And
instantly a voice from within cried out, bursting against the door, as if
to break it open, the person repeating his violent pushes, Are you
there?--come up this moment!--this moment!--here they are--here they are
both together!--your pistol this moment!--your gun!--Then another push,
and another. He at the same moment drew his sword, and clapping it naked