“Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said gently, “I am afraid that some fresh trouble has come to you. You are afraid—that here in London—I shall not be a success. But the vicomte has said that his sister may remain, but that the daughter must go. And Gosse had been still there, so Martha said, and not in prison. You have been her guardian angel. She is a magician sought by all. ” “You shouldn’t have made an engagement until you’d consulted your aunt. 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.
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