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‘Well said, my dear. ‘Say it. But the recollection of the warm pliant body in his arms
…!
"I am a thief!" he whispered. ‘I did not send you a card because in the normal way of things you rarely
attend such affairs. His favorite newspaper was the
Times, which he began at breakfast in the morning often with manifest irritation,
and carried off to finish in the train, leaving no other paper at home. Somehow or
other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him
during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of
those women with whom he had been brought into contact. Old and dilapidated, the widow's domicile looked the very picture of desolation
and misery. How long he sat there, reeling off this
drivel, he never knew. It is picturesquely situated beneath a tree on the high
road, not far from the little hostel before mentioned, and at no great distance
from the church. ‘Whereas Melusine insists she is entirely English,’ agreed Gerald. It may here be mentioned that this gate,
destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible
significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in
1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their
royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the
county of Middlesex. No one had the
resources or the inclination to rebuild them.
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