"
"I, a thief?"
"Aye; thief, Roundhead and all. But this might be merely a figurative mode of describing his
customary vigilance. What you would look upon as immorality
is here merely an established custom, three thousand years older than
Christianity, accepted with no more ado than that which would accompany you
should you become a clerk in a shop. Just as he reached them, the Comte de St Erme drew Valade a
little apart and began to converse with him in rapid French. ’
‘How can you possibly enquire for her?’ demanded Hilary acidly. To-morrow, when she returned to Hong-Kong, she would purchase a
simple but modern dress. Wood
dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion,
essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper
to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as
we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted
the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he
had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. ’ He looked the girl up and
down. And if I hadn't been thirsty, that poor boob would have made a
sure getaway and left James Boyle high and dry among the moth-balls! Oh, the
old dome works once every so often.
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