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Gerald hissed in a doubtful breath. ToC
Early in the morning of Thursday, the 15th of October, 1724, the door of the
Castle was opened by Austin, who, with a look of unusual importance,
announced to the prisoner that four gentlemen were shortly coming up with the
governor to see him,—"four such gentlemen," he added, in a tone meant to
impress his auditor with a due sense of the honour intended him, "as you don't
meet every day. But what would her aunt think of Teddy’s recent off-hand suggestion of
marriage? What would she think of the Widgett conversation? Suppose she was
to tell her aunt quietly but firmly about the parasitic males of degraded crustacea. Wood. Again silence. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. And look, again, at the women one finds letting
lodgings. "Here's the full, true, and particular account of Jack Sheppard's last astonishing
and never-to-be-forgotten escape from the Castle of Newgate," bawled the
hawker, "with a print of him taken from the life, showing the manner, how he
was shackled and handcuffed. “May I hear?”
“It really isn’t much to tell,” Drummond answered. Stanley regarded him through his glasses with something approaching
animosity. ‘What in God’s
name do you think you’re playing at?’
‘Let me alone, man,’ Gerald muttered under his breath.
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