[Mary Anerley by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookMary Anerley CHAPTER XVII 20/35
I have far to ride before night-fall.
All that I want is simply this, and having gone so far, I must tell you all, or make an enemy of you.
I want to match this; and I have reason to believe that it can be matched in Flamborough.
Produce me the fellow, and I pay you fifty guineas." With these words Mr.Mordacks took from an inner pocket a little pill-box, and thence produced a globe, or rather an oblate spheroid, of bright gold, rather larger than a musket-ball, but fluted or crenelled like a poppy-head, and stamped or embossed with marks like letters. Widow Precious looked down at it, as if to think what an extraordinary thing it was, but truly to hide from the stranger her surprise at the sudden recognition.
For Robin Lyth was a foremost favorite of hers, and most useful to her vocation; and neither fifty guineas nor five hundred should lead her to do him an injury.
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