[The Touchstone of Fortune by Charles Major]@TWC D-Link bookThe Touchstone of Fortune CHAPTER VII 41/50
I wonder if you, being a man, can understand it all.
I hardly understand it myself, but this I know: I have done what I have done because I could not help it, and you say that I am cruel because you feel a part of the pain I suffer." "No, no, I was wrong," said Hamilton, dropping to his knees before her and seizing her hand.
"Forgive me and believe that my love is unselfish and that it will be yours so long as I live.
All that is not evil in me, I owe to you, and I am striving to make myself more worthy of your love, even though I must surrender you to another." "Betty told me of your good deeds when a plague was raging in Bishopgate ward," said Frances, "and Baron Ned has told me that you have changed your ways since leaving court." "I have changed since I learned to know you," he interrupted, "and now, with my first effort to be a man, misfortunes come trooping at my heels so fast that I know not what to do nor where to turn." "That was one reason why I came to see you," she said.
"The king seeks your life because it is said that you threatened his.
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