She remained for a few moments standing as though
listening to his retreating footsteps. That I am not ignorant of the reward offered for my capture this will show," he
added, taking a large placard headed 'Murder' from his pocket, and throwing it
on the floor. “You did
not wish to see him particularly this evening, then?”
Anna hesitated. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. It was
exactly as Sebastian had foreseen. See paragraph 1. “Yes, I remember,” she said. ”
“Does she have to sell her soul to the Devil?” Lucy
asked, feeling stupid. "
So saying, he descended a short spiral staircase, and, entering a long stone
gallery, from which several other passages branched, took one of them, and after
various turnings—for he was familiar with all the intricacies of the prison—
arrived at the cell of which he was in search. He looked at it eagerly,
but made no movement to take it. ‘Oh! little Vee!’ he cried, ‘little Vee!’ and
put his face between his hands and sat still for a long time before he broke out
again. ‘What’s this? Impertinence! French manners, is it?’
‘Grace à vous,’ Melusine threw at him fiercely. .
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