‘See that
writing table? Go and look in the drawer there. I have been around them for long enough. "Nor any one else, I suspect," answered Ireton, winking significantly. Kneebone," she added,
drawing up her magnificent figure to its full height, and making the heavy
cudgel whistle through the air, "look to yourself. “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’
one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and
Drummond and his lot were with us. But to England! What has
happened, then?”
Already the terror of a few hours ago seemed to have passed away from the girl
who leaned back so lazily in her chair, watching the tip of her patent shoe swing
backwards and forwards. She was going through with that,
anyhow. But in between these wider phases of comparative confidence were
gaps of disconcerting doubt, when the universe was presented as making sinister
and threatening faces at her, defying her to defy, preparing a humiliating and
shameful overthrow. Whoever chose to
incur the risk of so doing might enter the Mint at any hour; but no one was
suffered to depart without giving a satisfactory account of himself, or producing
a pass from the Master. "
"Have I ever broken my word in such matters, that he dares put the question?"
rejoined Jonathan sternly.
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