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"I thought you told me that the rascal who has so long been the terror of the town
—Jack Sheppard—was in custody. Wood, who had recovered her good humour, quitted the room she bestowed
a hearty embrace on Thames, and she told him laughingly, that she would "defer
all she had to propose to him until to-morrow. Open that
bottle with a blue seal, my dear. Gerald was instantly on the alert. And if she is not a nun, nor a refugee, and yet is entirely
English, I’m hanged if I know what she is. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted
maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented
itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for
many women it is a lost paradise. No
sooner had Trenchard crossed the threshold than a fierce barking was heard at
the farther extremity of the passage, and, the next moment, a couple of mastiffs
of the largest size rushed furiously towards him. Books! Aren't they wonderful?"
The blind alley of life stretching out before her, with its secret doorways and
hidden menaces; and she was unconcerned. I have not found the secret
way into the house, for instance.
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