[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXV 2/30
She's safe.' 'Where ?' 'Will you come, sir ?' 'Step ahead.' Madge set forth to north of the square. He judged of the well-favoured girl that she could steer her way through cities: mouth and brows were a warning to challenger pirate craft of a vessel carrying guns; and the red lips kept their firm line when they yielded to the pressure for speech. 'It's a distance.
She's quite safe, no harm; she's a prisoner; she's well fed; she's not ill treated.' 'You 're out ?' 'That's as it happens.
I'm lucky in seeing you early.
He don't mean to hurt her; he won't be beaten.
All she asks is ten minutes with him.
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