[The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers CHAPTER XXVII 26/29
You can marry her now.
I saw what I saw.
She'll take you.
And some day--some day, when you have been married a long time, tell her I'm dead; and tell her--about Flavell, and how I owned to it--but that I did not do it.
I never sank so low as that." His voice had dropped to a whisper which died imperceptibly away. "I will tell her," said Charles; and Raymond turned his face to the wall, and spoke no more. The struggle had passed, and for the moment death held aloof; but his shadow was there, lying heavy on the deepening twilight, and darkening all the little room.
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