Read "Guy Falconer" by Lucy Ellen Guernsey online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"THE papers have arrived, sir, and the witnesses are ready. Only a stroke of the pen, and the thing is done. It will not fatigue you much."
The old gentleman to whom this was spoken in a tone of gentle entreaty turned himself with difficulty on his bed, and looked earnestly at the speaker.