Complete 12/20 Ay, then, but you shall speak, or I'll break my word to her, to do right by her son. She herself would speak if she was here, and I'll answer her, if ever I see her after Purgatory, for speaking now." The old man drew himself up in his chair as though in pain, and said very slowly, almost thickly: "I shall answer also for all I did. He is of my blood--his mother was dead--in his veins is the blood that runs in mine. |