[Fair Margaret by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookFair Margaret CHAPTER XX 5/17
One moment, Excellency, only one moment! "Yes, Senora, with those few alterations the dress will be perfect.
You shall have it back tonight without fail, and I can cut the others that you have been pleased to order from the same pattern.
Oh! I thank you, Senora, you are too good to a poor girl, and," in a whisper, "the Mother of God have you in her guard, and send that Peter has improved in his love making!" and, half hidden in garments, Inez bowed herself out of the room through the door which the governor had already opened. About nine o'clock on the following morning one of the jailers came to summon Margaret and her father to be led before the court.
Margaret asked anxiously if the Senor Brome was coming too, but the man replied that he knew nothing of the Senor Brome, as he was in one of the cells for dangerous criminals, which he did not serve. So forth they went, dressed in their new clothes, which were as fine as money could buy, and in the latest Seville fashion, and were conducted to the courtyard.
Here, to her joy, Margaret saw Peter waiting for them under guard, and dressed also in the Christian garments which they had begged might be supplied to him at their cost.
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