Or did he? Perhaps he had found another. —'Why, hang every bailiff that sets a foot in your territories, and you're
safe,' says I. ’
‘I would have done, only you threatened to blow off my head,’ Gerald
reminded her, laughing. Give me your
name, girl!’
‘Again?’ Mademoiselle rolled her eyes. I can fairly understand Ruth; but
you…!"
"Have you ever been so lonely that the soul of you cried in anguish? Twentyfour hours a day to think in, alone?… Perhaps I did not want to go mad from
loneliness. Today you shall promise
me that you will pull no more of these stunts. The
first time, I overlooked the offence; but the second time, when I had planned to
break open the house of his master, the fellow who visited you to-night,—Wood,
the carpenter of Wych Street,—he betrayed me. "Aha! my lad!" he cried without
appearing to regard the pain of the wound; "now I'll show you no quarter. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game. John, I have something to say to you. ’
‘I don’t know,’ confessed Gerald. ‘Well, sir, if I’ve to choose betwixt
him and you, I’ll take you, no question. But it must have
been something that could show her to be Mary’s daughter. She only weighed about 100 pounds and she was
about 5’9”, much taller than you and I. I had two offers of marriage from men
I liked very much indeed, but it never occurred to me to listen to either of them.
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