A young man with shiny frock coat and very high collar, advanced
towards her languidly. "I beg your pardon!… A bit rocky this morning…. ‘Seems quiet enough,’ observed the junior officer, his gaze raking the
shuttered windows of the building’s grey stone frontage. Ruth obeyed, not willingly, but because
there was something hypnotic in the authoritative tone. "Are you sure these bars
touch the ground?"
"They come within a yard of it," answered Jonathan. "Aha!" exclaimed Jack, with a roguish wink, "I've caught you,—have I?"
The carpenter's daughter was fair and free—
Fair, and fickle, and false, was she!
She slighted the journeyman, (meaning me!)
And smiled on a gallant of high degree. ”
“But Hainault—was—a pal. "I might now send you on a similar journey!" replied Jonathan, with a bitter
smile, and preserving the unmoved demeanour he had maintained throughout;
"but I prefer conveying you, in the first instance, to Newgate. ‘Jacques?’ she called out, forgetting the need for silence. “I’ve got bad faults. The cheating of the boys in
the stores ceased. Everything was
done in the most legal and imposing way, but the whole thing was a fraud.
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