“Run in now. "
"Not quite, I hope," rejoined Sheppard. Eh bien, why did he
not repeat it? What was she to say?
‘Prudence,’ she began hesitantly, pronouncing the name in the French way,
‘has said that she will help me to—to marry an Englishman. Your father has forbidden you to go!’”
“Well?”
“She said, ‘I hate being horrid to you and father, but I feel it my duty to go to
that ball!’”
“Felt it her duty!”
“‘Very well,’ I said, ‘then I wash my hands of the whole business. In order to guard against accidents or surprises,
watchmen, or scouts, (as they were styled,) were stationed at the three main
outlets of the sanctuary ready to give the signal in the manner just described:
bars were erected, which, in case of emergency; could be immediately stretched
across the streets: doors were attached to the alleys; and were never opened
without due precautions; gates were affixed to the courts, wickets to the gates,
and bolts to the wickets. It
was not only Leonardo who had instilled in her this distrust of men.
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