[Red Eve by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookRed Eve CHAPTER II 3/27
I am with you, said that kiss.
Have no fear; in life or in death none shall divide us.
He looked at her with grateful eyes, and would have spoken had she not placed her hand upon his mouth and pointed. Acour was speaking in English, which he used with a strong French accent. "Well, we do not find your beautiful runaway, Sir John," he said, in a clear and cultivated voice; "and although I am not vain, for my part I cannot believe that she has come to such a place as this to meet a merchant's clerk, she who should company with kings." "Yet I fear it is so, Sir Edmund," answered Sir John Clavering, a stout, dark man of middle age.
"This girl of mine is very heady, as I give warning you will find out when she is your wife.
For years she has set her fancy upon Hugh de Cressi; yes, since they were boy and girl together, as I think, and while he lives I doubt she'll never change it." "While he lives--then why should he continue to live, Sir John ?" asked the Count indifferently.
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