The next moment, an exclamation was heard in the voice of Thames. Accidentally raising his eyes,
he saw that he was perceived by the family from Dollis Hill, and that he was an
object of the deepest interest to them. “Broddick is a heavy
man,” he was saying, “and the main interest of the play was the embezzlement. Some of the lunatics were rattling their chains; some
shrieking; some singing; some beating with frantic violence against the doors. And you are something of a heroine, too. The half-nude brown bodies
of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South
Seas. 176
“No, it’s very good. Many’s the bullets I’ve dug out of fellows in my
time. Wild's
intention, doubtless, was to use you as far as he found necessary, and then to sell
you. Over an old crazy bedstead was thrown a squalid,
patchwork counterpane; and upon the counterpane lay a black hood and scarf, a
pair of bodice of the cumbrous form in vogue at the beginning of the last
century, and some other articles of female attire.
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