Arrived at the audience-chamber, he set down the light upon a stand, threw open the door, and announced in a loud voice, but with the perfect intonation of the person he represented,—"Sir Rowland Trenchard. Hist!’ he added, as he turned his head and noticed Alderley’s glance. No breakfast, he’s had no dinner, hardly a mouthful of soup— since yesterday at tea. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. ’ ‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his own pistol was not cocked. It took Marina in three days. Lose no time. I’m making a mess of my life— unless you come in and take it.
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