CHAPTER II. In those revolutionary times
one had to be prepared. “I rue the day I ever met you, Sebastianus. Ah Cum said that it was customary to give the chair
boys small money for rice. It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life. On a small shelf near the foot of
the bed stood a couple of empty phials, a cracked ewer and basin, a brown jug
without a handle, a small tin coffee-pot without a spout, a saucer of rouge, a
fragment of looking-glass, and a flask, labelled "Rosa Solis. ‘You talk together of me as if I am not there. The figure of the girl upon it in plain black dress, standing with
her hands behind her, was an undeniable and astonishing likeness of herself. White rang the bell. But the
free arm of the stranger hit him a flail-like blow on the chest and sent him
sprawling into the yielding sand. "And will swear to it?"
"I will. By
your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard's will, you are aware,—and, therefore, I
need not repeat it, except for the special purpose I have in view,—you are aware,
I say, that, by this will, in case your sister Aliva, died without issue, or, on the
death of such issue, the property reverts to Constance and her issue.
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