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He moved to his friend and grasped his hand in a gesture as deliberately
dramatic as the storytelling of mademoiselle. Alarmed by these prognostications of a storm, and feeling too much exhausted
from his late severe treatment to proceed further on foot, Wood endeavoured to
find a tavern where he might warm and otherwise refresh himself. He had almost forced himself upon her one night after
a particularly bloody raid of a thatched cottage. ”
Ann Veronica could have wept with vexation. “It is very good of you to come and see me, my dear sister,” Annabel remarked,
throwing herself into a low chair, and clasping her hands over her head. “He seems like such a nice boy. While they were thus occupied, a maid-servant entered the room, and stated that
a person was without who had a packet for Captain Darrell, which must be
delivered into his own hands. This was the first young man who had
drawn from her something more than speculative interest. . ”
“I do not know who he is,” Brendon said quietly, “but he will not forget. I ought to be able to think things out. I don’t care WHAT happens. "She travelled alone;
and she is the purest woman God ever permitted to inhabit the earth. "
"She? My God, the pity of it! She knows nothing of life. “Dear friend,” she said, “remember that you are speaking to one who has failed
in the only serious object which she has ever sought to accomplish.
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