’
For the first time since she had heard the news, Mrs Sindlesham’s features
relaxed and a tiny smile appeared. Anna, quitting her
chair, dropped on her knees by her sister’s side and took her hand. ”
She looked thoughtfully into the fire. Be warned by your father's
fate. Wood sank, submissively, into a chair,
while his daughter hastened to execute her arbitrary parent's commission. He could not tell by the look of her whether she was glad or sorry that presently
she would be free. "I do," replied Kneebone. As in all things, so his thoughts came to him deliberately. Without care
he will die. Families had seen their lands seized, their
chateaux ransacked or burned, and those unlucky enough to have failed to
anticipate disaster, had been murdered or dragged away to gaol. ’
‘Consider me warned,’ said Gerald solemnly. “My God!” he said at last, with tremendous feeling, and then again, “My
God!”
Now that this thing was said her mind was clear and calm. But these fears, like those he had recently experienced, speedily vanished, and
he prepared to return to the roof, congratulating himself that owing to the
opportune falling of the bricks, he had in all probability escaped serious injury. Drawing a pistol, and unclosing his lantern with the quickness of
thought, he then burst through an open trap-door into a small loft.
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