[The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe New Magdalen CHAPTER V 11/28
Did he really mean what he had just said? "You can pass me through the German lines ?" she repeated.
"You must possess extraordinary influence, sir, to be able to do that." Mr.Horace Holmcroft smiled. "I possess the influence that no one can resist," he answered--"the influence of the Press.
I am serving here as war correspondent of one of our great English newspapers.
If I ask him, the commanding officer will grant you a pass.
He is close to this cottage.
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