It was Annabel who spoke. To many in that crowded solitude it came as an
extraordinary relief. After repeatedly trying to remove the plate, which was so
firmly screwed down that it resisted all his efforts, and vainly attempting to pick
it with the spike and nail; he, at length, after half an hour's ineffectual labour,
wrenched off the box by means of the iron bar, and the door, as he laughingly
expressed it, "became his humble servant. If you were a poet in need of rhymes, you
had only to turn to a certain page. But the recollection of the warm pliant body in his arms
…!
"I am a thief!" he whispered. Sometimes I
think you would have been much better off if you had
been born in death-worshipping Egypt instead of in the
Fourteenth Century. It was decrepit and too large. ‘I rather suspect,’ added Prudence, ‘that Major Alderley’s motives were
somewhat different. The young
fellow was almost as odd in his way as the girl was in hers. “I wish you and I had drunk that love potion,” he said. You’d think with as
much dick as she gets that she’d cheer up. He
closed the door. You go to your room and ring for your maid. Has he not himself taken my daggers and
my pistol and my knife? Alors, he has given me back my pistol and one dagger,’
she conceded conscientiously, ‘which is a very good thing.
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