The Admirable Bashville

Book Excerpt: this great domain.LYDIA. I am.CASHEL. Accursed luck! I took you for The daughter of some farmer. Well, your pardon. I came too close: I looked too deep. Farewell.LYDIA. I pardon that. Now tell me who you are.CASHEL. Ask me not whence I come, nor what I am. You are the lady of the castle. I Have but this hard and blackened hand to live by.LYDIA. I have felt its strength and envied you. Your name? I have told you mine.CASHEL. My name is Cashel Byron.LYDIA. I never heard the name...