"Poor little
creature!" he muttered, pressing it tenderly to his breast, as he grasped the rope
and clambered up to the window: "if thou hast, indeed, lost both thy parents, as
that terrible man said just now, thou art not wholly friendless and deserted, for I
myself will be a father to thee! And in memory of this dreadful night, and the
death from which I have, been the means of preserving thee, thou shalt bear the
name of THAMES DARRELL. Why, there's another party on the stair-head inquiring arter scullers; and, by the
mass! they appear in a greater hurry than any on us. He stood away from her. It wasn’t. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. ‘I thought, you see,
that we might as well enter by the same way our intruder had done. It’s not fair to you. She cut a deep gash into her own arm with a steel screw,
loosing drops of her own blood onto the floorboards.
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