‘Nothing of the sort,’ argued Gerald. But with
returning breath came returning vociferations; and the carpenter, with a faint
hope of lessening the clamour by change of scene, took up his lantern, opened
the door, and walked out. "Do you call this frantic glee happiness?"
"It's all the happiness I have known for years," returned the widow, becoming
suddenly calm, "and it's short-lived enough, as you perceive. It was a work
of no slight danger, for every instant a wall, or fragment of a building, came
crashing to the ground. But if he's in bed, how the devil is he going with me, supposing I decide to
hire him? The mudhook comes up to-morrow night. . "
The woollen-draper's application to the bell was answered by a very pretty
young woman, with dark Jewish features, roguish black eyes, sleek glossy hair, a
trim waist, and a remarkably neat figure: the very model, in short, of a bachelor's
housekeeper. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. "I am perhaps exceeding my authority in demanding so slight a sum," continued
Jonathan, modestly, "and the Master of the Mint may not be disposed to let you
off so lightly. "This is the explanation of the bloody deed.
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