[The Lady Of Blossholme by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lady Of Blossholme CHAPTER VIII 14/29
They have my soul, and month by month I must confess. You remember, Emlyn, I warned you when you and the lady would have ridden to London before the siege.
Well, afterward--I must confess it--the Abbot heard it himself, and oh! sore, sore was my penance. Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
There's only one thing I didn't tell them, because, after all, it is no sin to grub the earth off the face of a corpse." "Ah!" said Emlyn, looking at him.
"You're not to be trusted.
Well, I thought as much.
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