Would you believe I have never said no to that question-?
[A weak attempt at a joke, far less witty than usual, and forgetting perhaps that current company was a lady, and not Bossuet of one of his more ill-mannered bar-maid friends. He had had his hands in blood today, and the last time that had been the case, he'd ended up--
Well. Here.
Which was a nicer way of thinking about it than 'quite verifiably dead.'
He seemed alive now though, and she, so he tried to soothe himself with that irrefutable knowledge.]
Lead the way, my dear...
[Agreed, pulling back only to take in a breath and hold out an arm for her; a play at being the better gentleman that he knew that he was, for a girl who rather, in his estimation, deserved such.]
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[A weak attempt at a joke, far less witty than usual, and forgetting perhaps that current company was a lady, and not Bossuet of one of his more ill-mannered bar-maid friends. He had had his hands in blood today, and the last time that had been the case, he'd ended up--
Well. Here.
Which was a nicer way of thinking about it than 'quite verifiably dead.'
He seemed alive now though, and she, so he tried to soothe himself with that irrefutable knowledge.]
Lead the way, my dear...
[Agreed, pulling back only to take in a breath and hold out an arm for her; a play at being the better gentleman that he knew that he was, for a girl who rather, in his estimation, deserved such.]