[To Have and To Hold by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookTo Have and To Hold CHAPTER X IN WHICH MASTER PORY GAINS TIME TO SOME PURPOSE 2/15
Dr. Bohun, muttering something about the feverishness of the early air, wrapped his cloak about him, and huddled in among the roots of a gigantic cedar.
I stood with my back to the church, and my face to the red water between us and the illimitable forest; my lord opposite me, six feet away.
He was dressed again splendidly in black and scarlet, colors he much affected, and, with the dark beauty of his face and the arrogant grace with which he stood there waiting for his sword, made a picture worth looking upon. Rolfe and the Secretary came back to us.
"If you kill him, Ralph," said the former in a low voice, as he took my doublet from me, "you are to put yourself in my hands and do as you are bid." "Which means that you will try to smuggle me north to the Dutch.
Thanks, friend, but I'll see the play out here." "You were ever obstinate, self-willed, reckless--and the man most to my heart," he continued.
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