“Dinner is served, m’m,” said the efficient parlor-maid in the archway, and the
worst was over. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. He must be a sly fox to get out of the
Mint without my knowledge. And if you’ve any notion—’
‘Yes, it is upstairs,’ Melusine agreed, crossing to the library door. She brought the cups
of cocoa back to the bedroom. There was a new
softness in her eyes, a hesitation, a timidity about her manner which was almost
pathetic. "
"Thank'ee,—thank'ee.
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