[The People Of The Mist by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe People Of The Mist CHAPTER XVII 9/22
I don't know how you take that, either of you, or how far the matter will go when I am dead. But if it goes any way at all, I trust to your honour, as an English gentleman, to repeat that ceremony the first time you come to a civilised country.
If you do not care for each other, however, then Juanna must shift, as other women have to do, poor things.
She can look after herself, and I suppose that her face will help her to a husband some time.
There is one thing: though she hasn't a pound, she is the best girl that ever stepped, and of as good blood as you can be.
There is no older family than the Rodds in Lincolnshire, and she is the last of them that I know of; also, her mother was well-born, although she was a Portugee. "And now, do you accept the trust ?" "I would gladly," answered Leonard, "but how can I? I propose to go after these rubies.
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