[The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link book
The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER XIX
8/14

I cannot bear it." "Throw it away! give it him back?
not a stiver! This is spoil lawfully won in battle from an enemy.

Is it not, Martin ?" "Why, of course.

Send him back the brown paper, and you will; but the purse or the coin--that were a sin." "Oh, Gerard!" said Margaret, "you are going to a distant land.

We need the goodwill of Heaven.

How can we hope for that if we take what is not ours ?" But Gerard saw it in a different light.
"It is Heaven that gives it me by a miracle, and I shall cherish it accordingly," said this pious youth.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books