For
awhile he watched the revolving light on Copeley's. "
"Be pacified, sweet soul," said Wood, looking meaningly at Thames; "you shall
go, and I will accompany you. He had not thought to find a lady so ready of
humour and willing to give him a hearing. The father was a
madman. It was only by the adoption of such a course (especially since
the late act of suppression, to which we have alluded,) that the inviolability of
the asylum could be preserved. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. Immediately she had spoken of the loose button he knew that henceforth he must
show no concern over the disposition of that coat. I snatched it up, pointed it blindly at him, and fired. I might as well try to build a ladder to heaven. Yours?"
The stranger hesitated. “How can you know?”
“I think—perhaps I am rather a cold-blooded person. "
"A key!" exclaimed Wood eagerly. Wood," said Jonathan, advancing towards him, and speaking in a low tone,
"the secret of your adopted son's birth is known to me. Mrs. Nine years ago, I worked in this very house—had a kind indulgent
master, whom I robbed—twice robbed, at your instigation, villain; a mistress,
whom you have murdered; a companion, whose friendship I have for ever
forfeited; a mother, whose heart I have well-nigh broken.
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