”
Drummond shook his head in melancholy fashion. When in the plenitude of his power,
he commenced a terrible trade, till then unknown—namely, a traffic in human
blood. "
"I should think not," observed Jonathan, who had some practice in the knight's
moods, and knew how to humour him. "
"Is he leaving England?" demanded Thames, in astonishment. “Well, I don’t feel like standing it. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. Trifle useful?" he added, slipping a few gold pieces into
Jack's hand. He never appears to so little advantage as when speaking of him. The
whole incident was so unexpected that neither Courtlaw nor Brendon were
awaiting. "It is plain he has been destroyed by his perfidious accomplice," rejoined
Thames.
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