From this singular collection Trenchard turned to
regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged
in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless
countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he
could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to
his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of
so unscrupulous a miscreant. There was a look in her eyes which
puzzled him. Her first impulse was to fly to the
window; and she was about to pass through it, at the risk of sharing the fate of
the unfortunate lady, when her arm was grasped by some one in the act of
ascending the ladder from without. “Ferringhall, were you or
were you not dining last night at a certain restaurant in the Boulevard des
Italiennes with—la petite Pellissier?”
Now indeed Sir John was moved. Worse than any man. "You are complimentary, Sir Rowland," returned the other, with a grim smile.
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