"This is your work," said the knight, sternly. Wood sank, submissively, into a chair,
while his daughter hastened to execute her arbitrary parent's commission. As she danced there was in
her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. Fixing a ferocious and exulting look upon Jack Sheppard, he
exclaimed. He
felt that he might soon be separated—perhaps, for ever—from the fond little
creature he held in his arms, whom he had always regarded with the warmest
fraternal affection, and the thought of how much she would suffer from the
separation so sensibly affected him, that he could not help joining in her grief. “Number 13, please, cabman. Side by side with the cheese
(its never-failing accompaniment, in all seasons, at the carpenter's board) came a
tankard of swig, and a toast. ”
He took a seat by her side. “You are in luck, Miss Pellissier,” he declared. ’
‘Pah! How can it be romantic? That is silly. He knew it
absolutely, as if he had the check in his hand. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ’
‘Pray don’t,’ begged Mrs Sindlesham, one eye on the general’s embattled
features.
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