The Devil on Horseback by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, History, Europe, Great Britain, France
ISBN: 9780449236253
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Published: 1941-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

He laughed again.

“Enchanting as ever, my dearest Minelle,” he said, “So in admiring you I have won a little of your approval. You know the extent of my ” admiration so I deserve a great deal of your esteem. “

“I could never trust you,” I said seriously.

“You have loved many women.”

“Experience is always valuable-no matter in what field and mine teaches me that I have never loved anyone as I love you.”

“The current one is always the most loved,” I said.

“You have become a cynic.”

“No. I am learning to be a realist.”

“Sometimes-life being what it is-it’s the same thing. But you still do not answer my question. I have a wife. 1 am not free to marry therefore. If I were …”

“But you are not free …”

“I may be … some day. I am asking you to tell me what your answer would be if I came to you with an honourable proposal of marriage.”

“Which you would not offer if you were free to because you must see that a marriage between us would be highly unsuitable.”

“I think it would be the most suitable that was ever made.”

“What! The noble count and the failed schoolmistress.”

“He is in great need of the tuition she will give him.”

“You are laughing at me.”

“No,” he said seriously.

“I want you to teach me how to be humble and human, how to enjoy what is best in life. I want you to show me how to be happy.”

“You have a high opinion of my qualifications.”

“But I am sure I assess them correctly. You see how I dote on you. Do your feelings for me increase as you discover what mine are for you?”

“I am suspicious. I know that you are adept at getting what you want from women. It must be interesting to discover various ways of wooing them.”

“You misjudge me. Moreover I suspect you of evading the question. You do not dislike me?”

“You must know that I do not.”

“I believe you enjoy these encounters, these verbal fireworks. Do you?”

“Yes, I do.”

“Ah. I have wrung an admission from you. I have the impression that you continually seek to evade me which can only be because I am not free to make an honourable proposal of marriage to you and your upbringing would not allow you to accept any other. That’s true, is it not?”

Once more I hesitated too long.

He said: “You have answered me.”

We cantered back to the castle side by side.

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