” She replied weakly. "
"What's the matter?" remarked Kneebone, addressing Sheppard, who, as he
caught the single but piercing eye of Jackson fixed upon him, started and
trembled. . ’
‘Can’t say as I’m sorry to hear you say that, missie,’ confessed the sergeant,
on a relieved note, as he locked the front door of the mansion and pocketed the
key. Pitt endeavoured to dissuade him from
attending in person, representing the great risk he would incur from the mob,
which was certain to be assembled. ”
He beamed over the effect of this and shook hands with effusion, and Lady
Palsworthy suddenly appeared as his confederate and disentangled the vicar’s
aunt. Stunning and continuous, the din seemed almost to take
away the power of hearing. She returned home through a world that was as roseate as
it had been gray overnight. The lady looked them over in silence, and then pouting lips trembled, dark
eyelashes fluttered, and in a broken voice, she pleaded, ‘Honoured messieurs,
you will not allow this—this pig, to be thus cruel? He cannot arrest me. Do you want me, too?”
“Yes,” she whispered foolishly, in the throes of
rapture. The life of a girl presented itself to her as something happy and heedless and
unthinking, yet really guided and controlled by others, and going on amidst
unsuspected screens and concealments. She leaped to a
world of shabby knowledge, of furtive base realizations. “Guineas, of course,” Mr.
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