" The doctor, apparently inferring
from the bitter tone of the young man, and the hard, steely gleam in
his blue eyes, that perhaps there was something to be considered in
his last words turned his horse's head, without a word, and went away
like the two envoys who had preceded him.
The doctor was disappointed. Without knowing much of Perez, he had
gained a strong impression from what little he had seen of him, that
he was of a frank, impulsive temperament, sudden and fierce in
quarrel, perhaps, but incapable of a brooding revengefulness, and most
unlikely to cherish continued animosity toward enemies who were at his
mercy. And as I would not have the reader do the young man injustice
in his mind, I hasten to say that the doctor's view of his character
was not far out of the way. The hard complacency with which he just
now regarded the calamities of the gentlemen of the town, had its
origin in the constant and bitter brooding of the week past over
Desire's treatment of him. The sense of being looked down on by her,
as a fine lady, and his respectful passion despised, had been teaching
him the past few days a bitterness of caste jealousy, which had never
before been known to his genial temper.
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