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‘Who is that?’ demanded Lucilla eagerly. John eased off. Amongst others, a person near the door, roused by the
shriek, observed a man make his exit with the utmost precipitation. I have been thinking these things over
lately, and it seems to me that marriage for a girl is just the supremest thing in
life. In the early hours of the morning, unable to
bear the suspense any longer, Melusine had ventured to explore the mansion, the
lantern she had brought in hand, commenting to herself all the time on the state
of the place and the difficulties of her task, and having no idea of the
consequences she was bringing on herself thereby. I charged the thief-taker, as was the
fact, with having robbed me, by means of the lad Sheppard, whom he instigated
to deed, of the very pocket-book he produced in evidence against me; but it was
of no avail—I couldn't obtain a hearing. "Perhaps you don't know that this Darrell
so contrived matters, that your child should be mistaken for his own; by which
means it had a narrow escape from a tight cravat, I can assure you. To be alone with her,
in idleness, was an intolerable thought.
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