'Your own impatience can alone make that step perilous fake oakley oil rig sunglasses ,' said the father; 'I have resolved to take it--do not let your indiscreet zeal, however excellent its motive, add any unnecessary risk to the transaction.'

'Even so?'  said the lady, in a tone of reproach, yet mingled with respect and apprehension.  'And thus you will still go forward, like a stag upon the hunter's snares, with undoubting confidence, after all that has happened?'

'Peace, madam,' said Father Buonaventure, rising up; 'be silent, or quit the apartment; my designs do not admit of female criticism.'

To this peremptory command the lady seemed about to make a sharp reply; but she checked herself, and pressing her lips strongly together, as if to secure the words from bursting from them which were already formed upon her tongue, she made a deep reverence, partly as it seemed in reproach, partly in respect, and left the room as suddenly as she had entered it.

'I gave the bastard a penny to buy me snuff replica oakley scalpel sunglasses,' said the pauper, 'and he has rendered no account of his intromissions; but I'll gar him as gude.'

So saying, he proceeded forcibly to rifle the pockets of Benjie's ragged jacket of one or two snares for game, marbles, a half- bitten apple, two stolen eggs (one of which Peter broke in the eagerness of his research), and various other unconsidered trifles, which had not the air of being very honestly come by. The little rascal, under this discipline, bit and struggled like a fox-cub, but, like that vermin, uttered neither cry nor complaint, till a note, which Peter tore from his bosom, flew as far as Lilias Redgauntlet, and fell at her feet.  It was addressed to C. N.The father looked disturbed at this incidentfake oakley oil rig sunglasses , which he seemed sensible could not but fill Fairford's imagination with an additional throng of bewildering suspicions; he bit his lip and muttered something to himself as he walked through the apartment; then suddenly turned to his visitor with a smile of much sweetness, and a countenance in which every rougher expression was exchanged for those of courtesy and kindness.

'The visit we have been just honoured with, my young friend, has given you,' he said, 'more secrets to keep than I would have wished you burdened with.  The lady is a person of condition--of rank and fortune--but nevertheless is so circumstanced that the mere fact of her being known to be in this country would occasion many evils.  I should wish you to observe secrecy on this subject, even to Redgauntlet or Maxwell, however much I trust them in all that concerns my own affairs.'

'I can have no occasion,' replied Fairford, 'for holding any discussion with these gentlemen, or with any others, on the circumstance which I have just witnessed--it could only have become the subject of my conversation by mere accident fake oakley oil rig sunglasses , and I will now take care to avoid the subject entirely.'

'You will do well, sir, and I thank you,' said the father, throwing much dignity into the expression of obligation which he meant to convey.  'The time may perhaps come when you will learn what it is to have obliged one of my condition.  As to the lady, she has the highest merit, and nothing can be said of her justly which would not redound to her praise.  Nevertheless--in short, sir, we wander at present as in a morning mist--the sun will, I trust, soon rise and dispel it, when all that now seems mysterious will be fully revealed--or it will sink into rain,' he added, in a solemn tone, 'and then explanation will be of little consequence.--Adieu, sir; I wish you well.'

He made a graceful obeisance, and vanished through the same side- door by which the lady had entered; and Alan thought he heard their voices high in dispute in the adjoining apartment.

Presently afterwards, Ambrose entered, and told him that a horse and guide waited him beneath the terrace.