Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link book Complete 30/36 There's only a hundred pounds, but I give it to you with all my heart, and you can pay it back when the king's money comes to you, or when you marry a rich woman." He said it all with a smile on his face. It was done so cleverly, with so much simulated sincerity, that Dyck, in his state of semi-drunkenness, could not, at the instant, place him in his true light. Besides, there was something handsome and virile in Boyne's face--and untrue; but the untruth Dyck did not at the moment see. He realized to the full the dangers he had run in disclosing the truth; for it was the truth that he had told. |