[Jess by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link book
Jess

CHAPTER II
14/23

"You'd never think that the same blood ran in their veins, would you?
There's three years between them, that's one thing.

Bessie's the youngest, you see--she's just twenty, and Jess is twenty-three.

Lord, to think that it is twenty-three years since that girl was born! And theirs is a queer story too." "Indeed ?" said his listener interrogatively.
"Ay," Silas went on absently, knocking out his pipe, and refilling it from a big brown jar of coarse-cut Boer tobacco, "I'll tell it to you if you like: you are going to live in the house, and you may as well know it.

I am sure, Captain Niel, that it will go no further.

You see I was born in England, yes, and well-born too.


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