[Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major]@TWC D-Link bookDorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall CHAPTER XIV 45/74
Take her home by some means when we return.
What, think you, could have brought her here ?" I evaded the question by replying, "I will probably be able to get a coach in the castle, Sir George.
Leave Dorothy with me." Soon, by the command of Sir William, the yeomen rode to the right and to the left for the purpose of surrounding the castle, and then I heard Cecil at the gates demanding:-- "Open in the name of the queen." "Let us go to the gates," said Dorothy, "that we may hear what they say and see what they do.
Will they kill him here, think you ?" she asked, looking wildly into my face. The flambeaux on the castle gate and those which the link-boys had brought with them from Haddon were lighted, and the scene in front of the gate was all aglow. "No, no, my sweet one," I answered, "perhaps they will not kill him at all.
Certainly they will not kill him now.
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