"Jack Sheppard had a visitor, I understand, yesterday, and may
make an attempt to escape. There is scarcely one chance in a dozen of saving his life; there would be
none at all if he were moved. But a human being who is young and clean, as you are, is
apt to ennoble—or explain away. Lucy looked
at her with a small measure of pity. He stood upon the threshold, dangling his eye-glasses in his
fingers, stolid, imperturbable, mildly interrogative. "Ja," answered Van; "at a minut's nodish. ’
She waved towards a handy table to one side which was piled high with so
many volumes, it looked in imminent danger of crashing to the floor. He glanced downwards at the impetuous torrent,
which he could perceive shooting past him with lightning swiftness in the
gloom. Nevertheless, relief washed over
her, her body rejoicing in the afterglow of twenty years of
tension released. He played variations on this theme for the better part of an hour. His struggles were so
violent, that, being a man of tremendous strength, it was some time before they
could master him, and it required the combined efforts of all the four partners to
put him into irons. But he may remain with
you if he pleases: I sha'n't hinder him. She was already a little prepared by her discursive reading and discussion
under the Widgett influence for ideas and “movements,” though
temperamentally perhaps she was rather disposed to resist and criticise than
embrace them. She had not at first the power for concealment. I promise not to do it again.
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