It was time
to get up. From the first of these alighted Thames, or, as he must now be
styled, the Marquis de Chatillon. She found herself again in the presence of
some element in life about which she had been trained not to think, about which
she was perhaps instinctively indisposed to think; something which jarred, in
spite of all her mental resistance, with all her preconceptions of a clean and
courageous girl walking out from Morningside Park as one walks out of a cell
into a free and spacious world. She was dressed in a little white frock,
with a very long body, and very short sleeves, which looked (from a certain
fullness about the hips,) as if it was intended to be worn with a hoop. Gentlemen! a glass of brandy will be no bad
finish to our meal. Young, not much older than she was: she was twenty and he was possibly
twenty-four. And this was an adventure of
which he had dreamed from boyhood: aboard a windjammer on the South Seas. Maggot. “I saw you in a sort of sloping, slippery place, holding on by your
hands and slipping. But he looked back into the
hall and spoke to the sergeant who could just be seen behind him. The houses overhung in a
frightful manner, and looked as if the next gust would precipitate them into the
river. ’
‘But me orders, sir? Are we to—’
‘Gad, but that’s her,’ interrupted Roding suddenly. Then his beard was of a reddish hue, and his complexion warm
and sanguine.
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