"
"Well, if you insist upon it, I will."
"I can see him as before; the only difference will be that you are his
master, in all other respects he will belong to us both."
"May I know what your knight-errant is saying to you, Mary?" inquired
Mrs. Becker.
"Oh, I have been so angry with him; he was going to refuse my
present."
"That was very naughty of him, certainly."
"He has, however, consented, like a dutiful squire, to obey my
behests."
"Yes, mother, Toby is henceforth to be divided between us."
"Divided?"
"Yes; that is, he is to be nominally mine, but virtually to belong to
us both. Is it not so, Miss Wolston?"
"Yes, Master Fritz."
On his side, Jack had approached Miss Sophia.
"So you won't give me your gazelle?" he whispered.
"No, certainly not, Mr. Jack," replied Sophia; "if you had saved my
life, as Fritz saved my sister's, I should then have had the right to
make you a present. But you know it is not my fault."
"Nor mine either," said Jack.
"Perhaps not; but if I had fallen into the sea, you would have allowed
the sharks to swallow me, would you not?"
"I only wish we had been attacked by a hyena or a bear on our way to
Waldeck."
"God be thanked, that we were not!"
"Well, but look here, Miss Sophia; let me paint the scene. You have
fainted, as a matter of course, and fallen prostrate on the ground,
insensible.
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