My Enemy's Daughter Author:Justin McCarthy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lucky for me that I was alone, and that the night was so dark. Any one seeing my gestures, hearing my cries, must have taken me for a lunatic. I waited on the st... more »rand until my emotions had worked off their first vehemence; perhaps I waited too until I thought the entertainment at the singing-saloon must be nearly over. Then I went back to the street whence I had come, and watched the people coming out. After the last of the audience had melted away, came out a cluster of the performers; among them I could clearly enough distinguish the figure of Christina— I had keen eyes for her form now—and my friend the basso was escorting her home. A strange, fierce pang shot through me. I had learned to feel two new passions in a few short hours—love and jealousy. CHAPTER III. A SEA FIGHT. I Did not go near Miss Griffin next day. I postponed making any report of my previous night's visitation. What report could I make hut that I had been present at a very dull and harmless entertainment? unless I chose to add the truth—that I had come away madly in love with the eyes and the voice of a girl whom ] had been in the habit of seeing three or four times a week for months and months, and about whom I never before cared a straw. Mine was certainly not love at first sight, but it had all the suddenness and unreasoning fierceness of that romantic form of the passion. I have not read in books much about such a love as mine, which neither flamed out at the first glimpse of the object, nor grew up with the gradual development of intimacy and appreciation. I was as one who walks in the sun of some tropical climate uninjured and unheeding for days, and whom suddenly, in some unexpecting moment, a flash, sharp as the cleave of a sabre, strikes and cuts' down. Yes, my love was like a sunstroke. I ...« less