[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link book
White Lies

CHAPTER XXI
62/77

This strange gaze struck Raynal, so far at least as this; he saw it was no hostile eye.

He was glad of that, for his own heart was calmed and softened by the solemn prospect before him.
"We, too, have a little account to settle before I order out the men," said he, calmly, "and I can't give you a long credit.

I am pressed for time." "Our quarrel is at an end.

When duty sounds the recall, a soldier's heart leaves private feuds.

See! I come to you without anger and ill-will.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books