You don’t happen to know of any one, I
suppose, who wants a nursery governess, or a clerk—without shorthand—or a
tryer-on, or a copyist, or——”
“For Heaven’s sake stop, Miss Pellissier,” he interrupted. Is it so, Annabel?”
“I did not know,” she faltered, “anything about you. Guided by the glare of the forge, which threw a stream of ruddy light across the
road, Jack soon found the place of which he was in search. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. You are
somebody’s secretary, are you not?”
It was plain that the subject was distasteful to her, but Ennison, although famous
in a small way for his social tact, did not at once discard it.
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