Wood had been my father, as well as yours. When she was quite sure that he was gone she took her sister’s note from the mantelpiece and slowly broke the seal. After some time, the scuffle grew more and more distant, until nothing could be heard. Casting a hasty glance, as he was about to turn an angle of the wall, at the great gates and upper windows of the prison, and perceiving no symptoms of pursuit, Jack proceeded towards the hovel at a very deliberate pace, carefully assisting his female companion over every obstacle in the road, and bearing her in his arms when, as was more than once the case, she sank from fright and exhaustion. Going involved two things that all Ann Veronica’s tact had been ineffectual to conceal from her aunt and father. He met her eyes with his fiery black gaze. She saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from the sides—and the beating of her heart. Gerald doubted there would be many eager suitors, even assuming the comtesse was keen to marry off her daughter to a foreign protestant.
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