“Was he really?” She asked, waiting on baited breath. "
"Then, bring them into this room, the first thing—quick! They must not meet,
Sir Rowland," he added, as Charcam hastened to obey his instructions. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. It's never a
bad day that has a good ending. Wanton!… This, then,
was what her father had meant. She thought she
had hidden well from him. "
"He then," continued the woollen-draper, "is no longer considered—"
"How, Sir?" cried Thames, advancing, "what is the meaning of your reference to
my name? Have you dared to insult this lady? If so—"
"Insult her!" replied Kneebone, rising, and endeavouring to hide his
embarrassment under a look of defiance. "He
first seduced him from the paths of honesty, and then betrayed him to a shameful
death, and he has sworn to do the same thing by my son. “The next question, Miss Anna,” he said, “is how am I to help you? I am wholly
at your disposal.
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