[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookWhite Lies CHAPTER XX 22/25
You think only of your wrong: it is natural: but I am the girl's brother; guardian of her honor and my own.
His life is precious as gold.
I shall make him marry her." "What! reward him for his villany ?" cried Edouard, frantically. "A mighty reward," replied Raynal, with a sneer. "You leave one thing out of the calculation, monsieur," said Edouard, trembling with anger, "that I will kill your brother-in-law at the altar, before her eyes." "YOU leave one thing out of the calculation: that you will first have to cross swords, at the altar, with me." "So be it.
I will not draw on my old commandant.
I could not; but be sure I will catch him and her alone some day, and the bride shall be a widow in her honeymoon." "As you please," said Raynal, coolly.
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