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Bessette shoved open a door to reveal a bare stone rooh, there was a stinking hole in the far corner A high, tiny , also barred, revealed sky and a bit of grass; she was, for all intents and purposes, underground

"You cannot leavehis arm "My fiancé is a duke And I a at her again "I’m not fond of Napoleon either, but I really hate you aristos" He shoved her in and slammed the door He pulled the key free and handed it to Petit, who had trailed thee "Don’t let this one seduce you into giving up the key," he advised "Madary Think about her rolling pin"

"It won’t ets through with you," Olivia shouted

The only response was the sound of footsteps receding down the passage

Olivia took a deep breath, which was afrorow accustomed to the sh thePerhaps pigs would fly

One had to think that by now Rupert had either rallied ornot Which meant that Quin would have returned to shore andfor her He would be frantic

Her situation wasn’t as terrible as the dire possibilities Quin had envisioned After all, she hadn’t fallen into the hands of a garrison of soldiers thirsting for English blood A mad breadmaker and a boozy captain didn’t strike fear in her heart; if she died of anything here, it was likely to be the stench

She turned the chair over and dusted off the seat with the he it in such a way that, once seated, she could see out theThe grass bent at one point and she stood on the chair to see if so in pursuit of a ht had grown stronger and taken on a yellow hue The sa soldier, Petit, poked his face around the door "Made better for you At least until o once he realizes you’re here But no one can go against Madame Fantomas, except for him"

"I would appreciate anywhere that doesn’t include a hole," Olivia told hih he sees "We decided that French honor would not allow us to leave a lady in a roohed "I promise you that I’m not"

"As you have seen, Mada open the door "We don’t cross her because there’s no point to it, and besides, she weighs twice as much as any of us A man named Oboe pinched her once and she struck hi pin He never recovered his hearing in that ear"

He escorted her a short way to another cell, which had no hole, and therefore no stench But the ainst the wall under thethere was a stack ofThe covers were striped and flowered, which ruous in the dank cell, and the stack actually reached as high as her head A little stepladder leaned against it

"We each brought ourat the stack "There’s twenty of us, and we hauled down fourteen We thought that was enough to keep the daly nice of you!" Olivia exclaiued"

"Ladies don’t belong on the ground Maman would have killed me May I help you?" He moved next to the stepladder

"Merci beaucoup," she said She took his hand and clihest mattress when she reached it She came onto her knees and looked over the side Petit’s nose was level with her perch, and all of a sudden it felt rather precarious

"You’d better lie down," he said, frowning "You could crack your head like an egg if you fell off"

She nodded in agreement "Do you happen to knohetherfor me?"

"We’re not allowed outdoors at this hour I can find out at four in the afternoon e go out for patrol"