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To Have and To Hold

CHAPTER V IN WHICH A WOMAN HAS HER WAY
19/19

"What care I?
And I do not think your ship captains, your traders and adventurers, do often dine with my lord bishop.

This barbarous forest world and another world that I wot of are so far apart that the inhabitants of the one do not trouble those of the other.

In that petty village down there I am safe enough.

Besides, sir, you wear a sword." "My sword is ever at your service, madam." "Then I may go to Jamestown ?" "If you will it so." With her bright eyes upon me, and with one hand softly striking a rose against her laughing lips, she extended the other hand.
"You may kiss it, if you wish, sir," she said demurely.
I knelt and kissed the white fingers, and four days later we went to Jamestown..


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