Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring it. She carried herself well, whereas her brother slouched, and there was a certain aristocratic dignity about her that she had acquired through her long engagement to a curate of family, a scion of the Wiltshire Edmondshaws. “I do not think that he is quite dead. But, if you have come to surrender yourself to justice, it is well. A man might be without relatives, but certainly he would not be without friends, that is to say, without letters. This one was Henry Esmond, that one the melancholy Marius, and so forth and so on; never any villains. I’ve to collect my sword and hat, and then we must get back to London. I saw him lying on the footway. She drew her naked arms around herself. He drew her to him with his hands upon her waist. She is my only family. I will make her my Grail, and some day, perhaps, if God wills, she shall become my wife!’” He looked very hard before him as he said this, and his voice was full of deep feeling. ” “I have been abroad,” he said.
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