CHAPTER I. ’ ‘And you are of a disposition entirely untruthful,’ retorted Gerald. And me, I know very much of soldiers. She possessed what he affected to despise, but secretly worshipped—the innate charm of breeding. For the fresh and feverish hue of lip which years ago characterised this feature, was now substituted a pure and wholesome bloom, evincing a total change of habits; and, though the coarse character of the mouth remained, in some degree, unaltered, it was so modified in expression, that it could no longer be accounted a blemish. "My name will only be remembered as that of a robber," he mused; "but it shall be remembered as that of a bold one: and this night's achievement, if it does nothing else, shall prevent me from being classed with the common herd of depredators. He came as an agreeable diversion from an insoluble perplexity. But after all, what did it matter whether she had secrets or not? To him she was not a woman but a symbol; and one did not investigate the antecedents of symbols. ’ I said. “And all the rest of it perhaps is a song. I didn’t understand. “I think,” he said, “that I would fetch any one whom he has asked to see. Davies!" he added, calling to the attendant, who was menacing Wood with a severe retaliation, "don't heed him; but, if you value a whole skin, come into the house, and bring that woman with you.
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