Hell's curses! that after all my precautions I should be thus entrapped. ’ ‘Sit down, Hilary,’ ordered Lucilla, and to Gerald’s amusement, her betrothed did so, perching on the desk close by and staring fixedly at the major. Brendon and Courtlaw who had been watching for her, met her at the door. She crooked her finger. The real Ruth was as completely hidden as though she stood behind the walls of Agra Fort. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. He had informed her that to leave him would be a choice to live a life of meager subsistence. “You know what a fearful old prig Ferringhall is, always goes about as though the whole world were watching him? We tried to show him around Paris, but he wouldn’t have any of it. I’ll make any reasonable arrangement you like. ” Lucy’s eyes smiled and a weary closed lipped smile arose on her face. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that I had better not?” He smiled indulgently. On a sudden, a change came over her countenance, which, up to this moment, had worn a smiling and satisfied expression. She watched the captain tuck the pistol back in his pocket, and perch on the edge of the big desk.
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