For fully five minutes he lay quite motionless. As soon as
he became convalescent, and all fears of his premature dissolution were at an
end, Wild recommenced his rigorous treatment. Ann Veronica stood in the twilight room staring at the door that had slammed
upon her aunt, her pocket-handkerchief rolled tightly in her hand. On the
present occasion, he appeared to have bestowed more than ordinary attention on
his toilette. "
"Never fear," replied the lady. ’
‘But you mind that I say I do not trust you. "Is your master at home?" inquired the jailer. I
didn’t understand before that letter. How Jack Sheppard was again captured
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XV. "Beg pardon," he said, "but isn't smoking allowed in the dining room?"
"It probably is," answered Prudence, "but that in no wise mitigates the
odiousness of the procedure. “Is this true, Annabel? Is
he dead?”
She nodded. "
A moment afterwards, they quitted the house. 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.
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