"
"I shouldn't mind ridding him of her," said Blueskin, gruffly; "and if she comes
in my way, may the devil seize me if I don't make short work with her!"
"You forget," rejoined Jack, sternly, "I've just said I'll have no violence—mind
that. The books slid from her arms and fluttered to the floor. Lucy's grin faded. ”
“And what are you doing here?” the lady asked. His tongue
was more ready, his wit more keen than usual. Before retracing his steps, however, he allowed his gaze to range
over the vast and beautiful prospect spread out beneath him, which is now
hidden, from the traveller's view by the high walls of the General Cemetery, and
can, consequently, only be commanded from the interior of that attractive place
of burial,—and which, before it was intersected by canals and railroads, and
portioned out into hippodromes, was exquisite indeed. Did he see him, this Monsieur
Charvill?’
‘I don’t rightly know, miss,’ confessed Kimble. “You are mine, Annabel, and nothing shall
ever make me give you up. The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it. Felix. She had thought to wear it now, since she must look more the
demoiselle. ”
She knelt upon the floor of her cell and clasped her hands, and remained for a
long time in silence.
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