[Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini]@TWC D-Link bookScaramouche CHAPTER IX 13/30
In silence they rode together towards it, and together they turned into that thickly hedged and narrow bypath.
At a depth of fifty yards she halted him. "Now!" she bade him. Obediently he swung down from his horse, and surrendered the reins to her. "Aline," he said, "I haven't words in which to thank you." "It isn't necessary," said she. "But I shall hope to repay you some day." "Nor is that necessary.
Could I do less than I am doing? I do not want to hear of you hanged, Andre; nor does my uncle, though he is very angry with you." "I suppose he is." "And you can hardly be surprised.
You were his delegate, his representative.
He depended upon you, and you have turned your coat.
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