” She fought to keep her teeth from
chattering. "
"For procuring my imprisonment?"
"For saving your life. Stop it. For the first time a
definite doubt possessed him. It was an intimate smell, the
unmistakable scent of him and another woman. The arrival of la tante Prudence late next day had changed all this, it is
true. But I'll not believe it of you. Open the window, Thames, and call for
assistance. Why don’t you make sure before you rush out like that
upon a stranger?”
“You were with my wife,” Hill repeated sullenly. Brendon dismissed the subject with a wave of the hand. . Originally built, as its name imports, in a cylindrical form, like a
modern Martello tower, it had undergone, from time to time, so many alterations,
that its symmetry was, in a great measure, destroyed. Young and old were dressed in their gayest
apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance,
from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of
several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all
classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place. When they reached the door, he kissed her
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again. Brewis had told him the Valade
family had been victim to wholesale murder, and a twinge of compassion had
wrung even his deliberately hardened heart.
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