"
"That, alone, ought to have prevented you from acting as you did, Jack,"
returned Thames, gravely. His
eyes caught at hers with passionate inquiries. "
"I tell 'ee what, landlord," observed the old sailor, quietly replenishing his pipe
from a huge pewter tobacco-box, as the waterman and Wood quitted the house,
"you've said good-b'ye to your friend. ”
She looked at him with uplifted eyebrows—a look of whimsical incredulity. Gerald caught the look and
slipped the weapon into his pocket. “It was just an hour before teatime,” she remarked. From this sorrowful state he was aroused by a loud derisive whistle, followed by
a still louder laugh; and, looking up, he beheld the impudent countenance of Jack
Sheppard immediately before him. ”
She glared at Sebastian over the drawing table where
she was sketching in chalk, then over at the fifteen year
old boy who was asleep in a disheveled pile of rushes in
the corner. That wasn’t even the worst
thing. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth
—a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called
Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from
Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel,
skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint
George's Fields. “Both!” said Ann Veronica.
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