ToC
Early in the morning of Thursday, the 15th of October, 1724, the door of the
Castle was opened by Austin, who, with a look of unusual importance,
announced to the prisoner that four gentlemen were shortly coming up with the
governor to see him,—"four such gentlemen," he added, in a tone meant to
impress his auditor with a due sense of the honour intended him, "as you don't
meet every day. She’ll have to wait for dinner,” he said, uncomfortably. It is but a wild
threat. She leaned back as he climbed on top of her and
kissed her mouth again. "Any price was better than your head. I would be
chased by every curious party on this planet, by vampireseekers, by witch-hunters, by researchers, you name it. “Do you think it is fair of you to
persecute me just now?”
“It is not persecution, Anna,” he answered gently. It may be well, therefore, before proceeding farther, to
describe it more minutely. She had a nut-brown skin, a
swarthy upper lip, a merry black eye, a prominent bust, and a tun-like
circumference of waist. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father.
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