” She swept out of the room. Those who lived outside the law might squabble among themselves, even unto death, Leonardo told her. Had this not been the case, he must have refused even to see his Frenchified granddaughter. 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. He will have it that I’ve taken leave of my senses. She went about the familiar home with a clearer and clearer sense of inevitable conclusions. He took a handful of the gravelly mud, with which the platform was covered, and threw the small pebbles, one by one, towards the gleam. "Blueskin's a friend in need," he said. "I wish merely to come out of this bargain honourably. But for now, I’d like to turn in, if you don’t mind. He put it carefully aside, resolved to defer the attempt till night. ‘I can answer that. You know what's what. Except for a few early ebullitions of passion, natural to a warm and romantic disposition, and leaving no harmful after-effects—ebullitions that by the standards of the higher truth I feel no one can justly cast a stone at, and of which I for one am by no means ashamed—I come to you a pure and unencumbered man.
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