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Jack Sheppard again sought his pistol, and was only withheld from levelling it at
the thief-taker's head, by the hope that he might gather some further information
respecting his mother. If only this child were his:
what good times they would have together! The thought passed on, but it left a
little ache in his heart. Not to go to her is wickeder
than if I had run away with my friend's wife. Of course, girls repeat phrases and opinions of which they cannot possibly
understand the meaning. ”
He took up his hat. From what do you wish to be
rescued?’
The girl fluttered her eyelashes, sighed dramatically and spread her hands. ‘Here were you
patiently waiting, without uttering one word of complaint the entire time, which
of course you never do, being yourself a female altogether of a disposition
extremely sweet and charming without the least vestige of a temper—’
‘Gérard,’ Melusine uttered on a warning note, desperately trying to control the
quiver at her lip. ”
That night was the most intolerable one that Ann Veronica had ever spent. Ten years of military life had taught him caution,
but only strengthened a fearless zest for diving into any promising adventure
with unalloyed enjoyment. It had neither succumbed to her nor wrathfully overwhelmed her.
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