The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. But in that reservation it may be she went a little beyond the converse of his
view. We must wash out those stains up stairs, and burn the cloth. Manning. Sheppard, vainly trying to discover a gleam of compassion
in the thief-taker's inexorable countenance,—"Mercy! mercy!"
"Pshaw!" rejoined Jonathan. Her father’s peculiar
stiffness of soul presented itself now as something altogether left out of the
calculations upon which her plans were based, and, in particular, she had not
anticipated the difficulty she would find in borrowing the forty pounds she
needed for Ramage. So she brought
upon the stage the Reverend Henry Dolby, a preacher of means, worldly-wise
and kindly, cheery and rotund, who, with his wife and daughter, had arrived at
the Victoria that morning. In a few minutes more he had made a breach in the roof wide enough
to allow him to pass through. Blueskin drew the knife
across his throat a second time, widening and deepening the wound; and
wrenching back the head to get it into a more favourable position, would
infallibly have severed it from the trunk, if the officers, who by this time had
recovered from their terror, had not thrown themselves upon him, and withheld
him. ’ Gerald knew the caress in his voice was a trifle ironic.
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