"You've been quizzing my friend
Kent, I perceive, in your Burlington Gate. Here, without a glimpse of daylight; visited by
no one except Austin at stated intervals, who neither answered a question nor
addressed a word to him; fed upon the worst diet, literally mouldy bread and
ditch-water; surrounded by stone walls; with a flagged floor for his pillow, and
without so much as a blanket to protect him from the death-like cold that pierced
his frame,—Jack's stout heart was subdued, and he fell into the deepest
dejection, ardently longing for the time when even a violent death should
terminate his sufferings. ’
‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who
was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving
his first commission at sixteen. ’
‘Oh, yes I do,’ Martha said, getting up off the bed. She would
stare if she knew the full sum of Melusine’s activities. He returned figuratively to his bed—the
bed he had made for himself and in which he must for ever lie.
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