He was a thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. Trees were torn up by the roots; many houses were levelled to the ground; others were unroofed; the leads on the churches were ripped off, and "shrivelled up like scrolls of parchment. Gerald’s task was to stop him from doing so. If Miss Charvill should take it into her head to dash off on some foolish errand, go with her by all means. And if you dare to produce any kind of weapon at all,’ he added, taking a plain brass-barrelled little pistol from his own pocket and levelling it, ‘I will have no compunction in blowing off your head, you madcap female. "I can," replied Trenchard. “See you. "A bit up in the world again; eh?" "Why did you bother with me?" "Because no human being has the right to die. ’ ‘Begging your pardon, miss, but I think as how you ought to go back to London,’ Jack ventured. In any event, I would not have let her escape me so easily. Sixteen thousand! Mark me, young man, you'll pay it back through the nose, every dollar of it!" "I owe you nothing.
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