[Foul Play by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookFoul Play CHAPTER IX 36/38
You alone can save us all.
I will tell you how, if you will restrain your repugnance, and accord me a short interview.
Need I say that no other subject shall be introduced by me? In England, should we ever reach it, I may perhaps try to take measures to regain your good opinion; but here, I am aware, that is impossible; and I shall make no attempt in that direction, upon my honor." To this came a prompt and feminine reply. "The ship is Mr.Arthur Wardlaw's.
The captain and the mate are able men, appointed by him.
Your suspicions of these poor men are calumnies, and of a piece with your other monstrous slanders. "I really must insist on your holding no further communications of any sort with one to whom your character is revealed and odious. H.R." This letter benumbed his heart at first.
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