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The Wing-and-Wing

CHAPTER XVIII
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The court will judge of the motive for itself.

How do you know that love for the young woman you mention was Raoul Yvard's only object in coming into the Bay ?" "One finds out such things by keeping company with a man.

Captain Rule went first to look for the young woman up on the mountain yonder, where her aunt lives, and I went with him to talk English if it got to be necessary; and not finding Gyty at home, we got a boat and followed her over to Naples.

Thus, you see, sir, that I have reason to know what craft he was in chase of the whole time." As all this was strictly true, Ithuel related it naturally and in a way to gain some credit.
"You say you accompanied Raoul Yvard, witness, in a visit to the aunt of the young woman called Ghita Caraccioli," observed Cuffe, in a careless way that was intended to entrap Ithuel into an unwary answer--"where did you go from when you set out on your journey ?" "That would depend on the place one kept his reckoning from and the time of starting.

Now, _I_ might say I started from Ameriky, which part of the world I left some years since; or I might say from Nantes, the port in which we fitted for sea.


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