Charvill’s command of French was enough to tell him
that, for its entire content was devoted to commending Nicholas Charvill’s
fourteen year old daughter into the care of the Abbess. 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. "Once in this chair, yer hon'r,
and I'll warrant he'll not get out so aisily as Jack Sheppard did from the New
Pris'n. For
me that is all over and done with. On the groundfloor the shutters were closed, or, to
speak more correctly, altogether nailed up, and presented a very singular
appearance, being patched all over with the soles of old shoes, rusty hobnails,
and bits of iron hoops, the ingenious device of the former occupant of the
apartment, Paul Groves, the cobbler, to whom we have before alluded. You come to visit a completely different gentleman at his
home. Sheppard looked round, and exchanged kindly glances with several of those who
addressed him. "One word before we part, adorable girl—
only one," he continued, detaining her.
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