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Under the circumstances you must permit me to be the best judge of
the identity of the young lady who did me the honour, as an old family friend, of
dining with me. To her consternation, the sound drew her great-aunt’s attention and she threw
out a hand. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. ”
“But how? It has only been a few days!”
“She’s not even here. “I have brought you very nearly to my door. "I am come to render you a service. For in life there is but one hour: an epic or an idyll: all other hours lead up
to and down from it. The walls were of immense
thickness; the small windows double-grated and unglazed; the fire-place was
without a grate; and a barrack-bed, divided into two compartments, occupied one
corner. "
The course of the carpenter's meditations was here interrupted by a loud note of
lamentation from the child, who, disturbed by the transfer, and not receiving the
gentle solace to which he was ordinarily accustomed, raised his voice to the
utmost, and exerted his feeble strength to escape. This was some satisfaction to the poor fellow, who was dreadfully frightened, as
indeed he might well be, it being the opinion of the jailers and others who
afterwards examined the place, that Jack had accomplished, single-handed, in a
few hours, and, as far as it could be ascertained, with imperfect implements,
what it would have taken half a dozen men several days, provided with proper
tools, to effect.
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