‘What highwayman?’ ‘Oh, it was nothing but just to match the rest of his conduct. He shot one last night on Hounslow Heath, and must needs leave the body upon the road.’ ‘He is a very good shot,’ Léonie said. ‘For me, I like best to fight with swords, and so does Monseigneur, but Dominique chooses pistols.’ Lady Fanny almost stamped her feet. ‘I declare you are as incorrigible as that worthless boy himself!’ she cried. ‘It’s very well for the world to call Dominic Devil’s Cub, and place all his wildness at poor Avon’s door, but for my part I find him very like his mamma.’ Léonie was delighted.
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