[Paul Clifford<br> Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link book
Paul Clifford
Complete

CHAPTER XXIII
10/18

On the night of the second day from this I will join you.

But be sure that you enter the cave at night, and quit it upon no account till I come!" "Yes!" said he, when he was alone, "I will join you again, but only to quit you.

One more offence against the law, or at least one sum wrested from the swollen hands of the rich sufficient to equip me for a foreign army, and I quit the country of my birth and my crimes.

If I cannot deserve Lucy Brandon, I will be somewhat less unworthy.

Perhaps--why not?
I am young, my nerves are not weak, my brain is not dull,--perhaps I may in some field of honourable adventure win a name that before my death-bed I may not blush to acknowledge to her!" While this resolve beat high within Clifford's breast, Lucy sadly and in silence was continuing with the squire her short journey to Bath.


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