‘It is seldom enough I am visited by anyone at all, let alone a personable young redcoat. ‘You ought to be glad someone cares enough about your wretched little neck to try and save it. ‘You’re the most troublesome wretch I’ve ever encountered,’ he told her bitterly. “That,” he said, grimly, with his hand on the doorhandle, “must be your own affair, unless you choose to live at Morningside Park. Gerald hoped he had covered all options and had resisted the temptation to pay mademoiselle a visit. ‘What the devil for? I’ll have one of the men ride the creature up tomorrow. Sharples received them at the threshold, and holding his lantern towards the prisoners to acquaint himself with their features, nodded to Quilt, between whom and himself some secret understanding seemed to subsist, and then closed and barred the door. As you admitted to me—one has to square one’s self with the world. A question next arose whether the prisoner could be executed under the existing warrant,—some inclining to one opinion, some to another. His first inquiries were concerning the child, and he was delighted to find that it still lived and was doing well. Not if I read her aright.
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