[Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson]@TWC D-Link bookAlice of Old Vincennes CHAPTER VIII 18/41
Lady Alice Tarleton was the mother of the first Sir Garnett Tarleton who came over in the time of Yardley.
It's a great family.
One of the oldest and best in Virginia." He looked at her now with a gaze of concentrated interest, under which her eyes fell.
"Why, this is romantic!" he exclaimed, "absolutely romantic.
And you don't know how you came by this locket? You don't know who was your father, your mother ?" "I do not know anything." "And what does Monsieur Roussillon know ?" "Just as little." "But how came he to be taking you and caring for you? He must know how he got you, where he got you, of whom he got you? Surely he knows--" "Oh, I know all that.
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