[The Lost Lady of Lone by E.D.E.N. Southworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lost Lady of Lone CHAPTER XXIII 10/10
"There he sits noo! he wha marrit me and afterwards marrit the heiress o' Lone! he wha betrayed me intil a prison, and wad hae betrayed me to the gallows, gin I had na been to canny for him! There he is noo, and he can na face me and deny it!" The Duke of Hereward did not deign to deny anything.
He passed the fly leaf, upon which he had written some lines, on to the old lawyer, Guthrie, who looked over it, nodded, and then rising in his place, addressed the Bench: "My lord, we desire that the witness, who is now transcending the duties and privileges of the stand, be ordered to sit down." "Oh! I'll sit down!" pertly interrupted Rose Cameron.
"I hae had my ain way, and I hae said my ain say, and now I'll e'en gae--gin this auld fule be done wi' me." "We have done with you; you can stand down," replied Mr.Keir, in mortification and disgust. Rose Cameron stepped down from the stand with the air of a queen descending from her throne.
In look and motion she was graceful and majestic as the antelope.
You had to hear her speak to learn how really low and vulgar she was. She darted one baleful blast of hatred from her blue eyes, as she passed the Duke of Hereward, and was then conducted back to the sheriff's room, where she was to be detained in custody until the conclusion of the trial..
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