"
"That child may be the means of saving me," muttered the stranger, as if struck
by a new idea: "I shall gain time by the expedient. To Breanna for believing
in this project at every step. Nothing would induce me to
marry you, or any man at present. He
reached out a hand gropingly, sagged, and toppled out of the chair to the floor,
where he lay very still. Its dreariness, like the filthiness of the police cell, was a discovery for her. She would rend him limb from limb like a
fiend if only she could move. "
"Gem'men o' the votch!" cried Sharples, as loudly as a wheezy cough would
permit him, "my noble pris'ner—ough! ough;—the Markis o' Slaughterford
——"
Further speech was cut short by a volley of execrations from the angry guardians
of the night. "
"I am almost afraid to utter it," said Kneebone; "but Thames Darrell is
murdered. When her shock and the headache subsided, and she
remembered that she had been reading the letter when Gosse had accosted her,
she looked for it in vain. It looked as if it had taken its
world for granted and prospered on that assumption—a world in which children
were trained to obey their elders and the wills of women over-ruled as a matter
of course.
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