"Lord Gervase," said he, "will you bid the coachman put about and drive to Lupton House?"
Lord Gervase stared at him in hopeless bewilderment. "Drive to Lupton House?" he echoed. The more he saw of this odd wedding, the less he understood of it. It seemed to the placid old gentleman that he was fallen among a parcel of Bedlamites. "Surely, sir, it is for Mistress Wilding to say whither she will be driven," and he drew in his head and turned to Ruth for her commands. But, bewildered herself, she had none to give him. It was her turn to lean from the carriage window to ask her brother what he meant.
"I mean you are to drive home again," said he. "There is something I must tell you. When you have heard me it shall be yours to decide whether you will proceed or not to Zoyland Chase."
Hers to decide? How was that possible? What could he mean? She pressed him with some such questions.
"It means, in short," he answered impatiently, "that I hold your salvation in my hands.
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CHAPTER XXIII MR WILDING
Why have you locked
But before he could
It is nothing short
Tush cried Albemarle the
Wilding and Ruth by
Not the first coward
He would have spoken
The Cause is good
There was no cause
Nick came over and
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For you aye Nay
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But if Mr Westmacott
Her face grew stony
That work I have
He was marched down
Since we are agreed
Blake however more no
He was too masterful
Tell me now said
Give me t at
Wilding saddle worn and
Slander nips it like
Com compromise myself she
Sir Rowland all unconscious
As it was she
Quick Wentwort T ere
Embittered by the slights
He was dressed in
He laughed softly to
Why have you locked
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