"Fool!" he cried, "do you think I wouldn't have secured you before this if I hadn't
some motive for my forbearance?"
"And that motive is fear," replied Jack contemptuously. His
wife's portrait had been removed from the walls, and the place it had occupied
was only to be known by the cord by which it had been suspended. For the present the desire to fly was gone. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. ‘By traitors I
am surrounded!’
‘Stop talking utter twaddle,’ ordered Roding, marching up to the desk. —Providence, I mean—HAS arranged it so that
men will keep you, more or less. Ah Cum presented his black-bordered card to such
individuals as seemed likely to require his services. The
necessity of defending herself and assuming a confident and secure tone did
much to dispell the sense of being exposed and indefensible in a huge dingy
world that abounded in sinister possibilities. “Where are we going?” Lucy asked desperately as
Michelle began to twitch with greater frequency. Activity in the hall intensified.
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