Courtlaw opened his lips, but
remained silent in the face of her imperative gesture. At this moment, a coach passed them, and was instantly hailed by Thames. Standing before a mirror set on a dresser between the windows, two hands
frozen in the act of adjusting a wide-brimmed hat on her head, stood a lady in a
dark riding habit, her startled features turned towards the door. Annabel, I was lying. At the door through which she had entered the room stood the so-called
Monsieur Valade. . He now tells her that she is free, no longer a slave. But I'll
tell e'e what we might do——"
The young man heard no more. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and
his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the
roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. ‘Obstinate fool!’
She saw Gosse raise a hand, and dug into her nun’s habit for the knife she had
not thought to need. This key," he added, taking
it from the boy, "was purloined from me by your father, Jack. Jack, whose back was towards it, did not see it; but he heard,
from the pitying exclamations of the crowd, that it was in view. She is your sister, and God knows I wish her none. Until
that moment, Jarvis had imagined the child to be safe in the wet-nurse’s cottage. Her
eyes flashed and she withdrew the dagger, pulling away from him.
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