By Right of Sword - The Original Classic Edition

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She saw that inasmuch as she herself had mistaken me for him, others would certainly do so; and thus, if she and I were together, the brother would get away unsuspected and would be flying from Moscow while he would be thought to be still walking about the station with his sister.

...Oh, Im not one to play the coward in that way, said I, lightly, when a look of reproach from those most expressive eyes of hers made me curse myself for a clumsy fool for this reflection on her brothers want of pluck.

...Obviously it was one thing to be mistaken for a man and to pass for him for a few minutes or hours: but it was quite another to take up his life where he had dropped it and play the part day by day and week after week.

...You may do that yet, if only Alexis Petrovitch can make a safe way for his sister out of Russia; and then I added, pausing and looking at her with a meaning in my eyes which I wished her to understand though I dared not put it in plain words:?But we shall not be brother and sister then.

...I did not think that at such a time any woman on earth could have exercised so strong an influence over me in the course of no more than an hour or two; and when we sat together after our last dance for a few minutes before she left, I felt I would have done almost anything on earth that she asked to serve her.

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