23/24 He kept silent on that point.' 'He let out enough.' 'You've punished him, if he's to lose a bonny sweetheart, poor devil! Your sister Sally sends you messages ?' 'We're both of us grateful, my lord.' He lifted the thin veil from John Edward Russett's face with a loveless hand. I have word from my manager there. Poor little wretch has died--died raving.' Madge's bosom went shivering up and sank. She's not often wrong.' 'She's looking well ?' said the earl, impatient with her moral merits:--and this communication from Wales had been the decisive motive agent in hurrying him at last to Esslemont. |