[The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cloister and the Hearth CHAPTER XVII 5/9
Come to me for them when you will, but come alone." "I were made else.
What! share the hundred crowns with Dirk Brower? And now may my bones rot in my skin if I let a soul know the poor boy is here." He then ran off, lest by staying longer he should excite suspicion, and have them all after him.
And Margaret knelt, quivering from head to foot, and prayed beside Gerard and for Gerard. "What is to do ?" replied Jorian to Dierich Brower's query; "why, we have scared the girl out of her wits.
She was in a kind of fit." "We had better all go and doctor her, then." "Oh, yes! and frighten her into the churchyard.
Her father is a doctor, and I have roused him, and set him to bring her round.
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