'Ah! it is noble and generous in a handsome fellow like you to taunt me and scoff at me! Heaven pay you back in your own coin.'
Eliza gave a scream, and seized Gustavus by the arm as though she required protection from some most fearful danger.
'For the love of the saints, ma'am, let us go on, and get out of the way of this wild animal,' she said, in a very loud whisper. 'He looks wicked enough to commit a crime. Keep off, Gustavus! What are you thinking about, catching hold like that of a respectable, young, servant woman?'
'Why it was you who caught hold of me, Eliza,' answered the cowherd mildly.
Paqualin, meanwhile, looked round the little group with a sort of despair in his poor ugly face.
'It is all useless,' he said; 'you will not listen to or believe me. I only get jeered at. You all despise me.'
'YOU ALL DESPISE ME.'
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