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her cheeks and she began to cry. To be sure," he added, lowering his tone, "they wos little 'uns, and
one on 'em was smothered—ough! ough!—how this cough chokes me!"
Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself,
unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole,
upon a bench near him. ”
“How can you say such things?”
“But he would!”
“Still, it isn’t your place to say so. Nay, for aught I know, some of them may
even now have got scent of me. It was a tale of battle, murder, and
sudden death on the New York waterfront. ‘Laisse-moi,’ she panted, shifting wildly in his hold, so that he had all to do to
keep her thus imprisoned. She was very pretty. You have thought it worth while to take some
considerable pains to resolve for yourself my sister’s identity. But this plan
(probably from its danger) was instantly abandoned; not, however, before her
momentary hesitation had been taken advantage of by her pursuers, who,
redoubling their efforts at this juncture, materially lessened the distance between
them. For a time she brooded on the ideals and
suggestions of the Socialists, on the vague intimations of an Endowment of
Motherhood, of a complete relaxation of that intense individual dependence for
women which is woven into the existing social order.
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