"Is your person in danger?" "Not from my creditors," replied Wood, significantly. As she came close, he took a pace forward and seized her from behind, one strong arm clamping her tight against his chest, the free hand seizing her about the mouth, stifling the cry that gurgled in her throat. " "You don't remember your mother?" "Oh, no; she died when I was very little. I chose you for your strength, your cunning, your intelligence, your great beauty. Her education was remarkable in that it was overdeveloped here and underdeveloped there: the woman of thirty and the child of ten were always getting in each other's way. ’ Gerald raised his brows. In those revolutionary times one had to be prepared. He was an officer, and a person of very great sense, and altogether a desirable parti. On this fresh outburst of the storm, Wood threw himself instinctively into the bottom of the boat, and clasping the little orphan to his breast, endeavoured to prepare himself to meet his fate. ‘But if there is one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’ ‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. She turned with an effort. It was supposed he was drowned in crossing the river, as his body had never been found. “But I am judge of that,” said Manning.
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