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Martin Conisby's Vengeance
Jeffery Farnol
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
Jeffery Farnol
Book Excerpt: ...want, as my light hatchet, sword, pistols, etc. I was buckling on my belt when her voice arrested me, albeit she spoke me very sweetly and soft: "You go now to your woman--your light of love--yes?""There is no woman but yourself," said I, frowning."Liar! Then what of this?" and she pointed slender finger; then I saw that tattered garment lying where I had dropped it and this woman spurning it with her foot. So I stooped forthwith, and snatching it from her desecrating touch, folded it across my arm, whereat she fell to sudden laughter very ill to bear."Ah--ah!" said she, softer than before and most hatefully a-smiling, "'tis for her sake your chin goeth bare and smooth--yes? She is over-nice in the matter of--""I tell you she is gone!" said I in fury."Gone--gone, is she? And you alone here, longing but for her return, through weeks and months and years waiting for her to come back to you; is not this the truth of it, yes?" Now I, knowing this for very truth, cou...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 18, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798679022485 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 426 g |
Language | English |
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