Her defence ceased rapidly to be in any
sense ladylike, and became vigorous and effective; a strand of black hair that had
escaped its hairpins came athwart Ramage’s eyes, and then the knuckles of a
small but very hardly clinched fist had thrust itself with extreme effectiveness
and painfulness under his jawbone and ear. Many other wards,—especially on the Master Debtor's side,—have been
necessarily omitted in the foregoing hasty enumeration. It was the blood she found that
cemented her decision that her foster daughter was a
criminal. Only a few weeks ago there was a bloody battle on
the bridge there between the soldiery and the local police. She learned that they had granted her the
attributes of an earth elemental goddess, and they
considered her as necessary as the wolf, as if she had a
role to play in the natural order. Those who lived outside the law might
squabble among themselves, even unto death, Leonardo told her. His eyes looked a little bloodshot to her; his face had lost something of its ruddy
freshness. Accompanied by
Sir Cecil, who still continued passionately enamoured of his sister, and to whom
he represented that she had fallen a victim to the arts of a seducer, he set off, at
fiery speed, for the metropolis. He had scarcely entered the arch, when the
indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding,
that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking.
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