“I have the right to be here. It is useless to trace
out her miserable career; though I can easily do so if you require it. He made his speech a little
elaborately. Have
you not tired of sadness and pain?”
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She thought she could hear tears in his voice but
would not look at him. Annabel
watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. "
She sent a covert glance toward the young man. Regardless of the risk he incurred from some heavy stone dropping on his head
or feet,—regardless also of the noise made by the falling rubbish, and of the
imminent danger which he consequently ran of being interrupted by some of the
jailers, should the sound reach their ears, he continued to pull down large masses
of the wall, which he flung upon the floor of the cell. . As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. Night and day have been alike to
me. But she has let fall enough for me to understand that
she knows about her father’s misdeeds.
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