“I am much obliged to you,” he said. Besides," added he, opening the shawl in which the infant was wrapped,
and throwing the light of the candle full upon its sickly, but placid features, "it's
sinful to repine while you've a child like this to comfort you. ’
Shock threw Melusine’s heart out of kilter and she looked instinctively
towards the major. “I’m damned if I’ll believe it,” he muttered to himself savagely. Wood the best of
wives. ’
‘Don’t tell me,’ exploded his second-in-command. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. ” He closed the door
partially behind himself. ” She said.
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