It is my prayer.' 'Dear lady, do not refuse me what I have come so far to seek; and remember that out of all the millions in England there is no other but yourself in whom I can dare confide.

I have all the world against me; you are my only ally; and as I have to speak, you have to listen.

All is true that they say of me, and all of it false at the same time.

I did kill this man Goguelat--it was that you meant ?' She mutely signed to me that it was; she had become deadly pale.
'But I killed him in fair fight.

Till then, I had never taken a life unless in battle, which is my trade.