18/23 Do you see his cheek now? There is not blood enough about you to do it. Were it not that the poor child has been wake and too trusting, I would bid her spit on you rather than take you for her husband." Then he paused, but only for a moment. "Sir, you must marry her, and there must be an end of it. In no other way can you be allowed to live." "Would you murder me ?" "I would crush you like an insect beneath my nail. |