After so long an agitation of the spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains for twelve hours together, that a woman should be capable of such an undertaking as delivering herself to the enemy, probably... The Metropolitan - Page 3151838Full view - About this book
| Francis Josiah Hudleston - 1927 - 434 pages
...delivering herself to the enemy, probably in the night, and uncertain of what hands she might first fall into,* appeared an effort above human nature. The assistance I was enabled to give was small indeed; I had not even a cup of wine to offer her, but I was told she had... | |
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