. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. ’
Melusine sat slowly down again, looking him over thoughtfully. He put his free arm around her and held the censer ready; and as Ruth snuggled
her cheek against his sleeve, they were, so far as intent, in each other's arms. I have scarcely recovered
from the shock of hearing of your condemnation, when I behold you free!"
"Not two hours since," rejoined Jack, "I was chained down in the Condemned
Hold in Newgate. ”
So they went this time to the Rococo, in Germain Street, and up-stairs to a
landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French
admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. The commissionaire
stood there, tall and imperturbable. "
She had no reason to doubt him. “Not at all. "How have you managed to
communicate with him?"
Abraham, who had listened attentively to the foregoing conversation,—not a
word of which escaped him,—now drew in his breath, and brought his ear closer
to the boards. Lord Charvill’s sense of justice would not, however, allow him to repudiate his
granddaughter, if indeed this female proved to be the infant lost to the family so
many years ago.
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