The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 94: what you’re looking at

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THE GAOL 77 refuse to wear this for my sake,’’— and she drew from her finger a splendid ring set with brilliants. Kate could not reject a gift so generously and also so deli- eately proffered; she accordingly accepted it, and after many embraces and kind words, she and the minister’s wife bade each other farewell. Within the hour, Kate was seated in a post-chaise, issuing forth from the Spanish capital on the highroad to Barcelona. CORNICE 0)(0)() ‘S (S(O)