"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. ”
“And leave you here alone?” he asked, in a hoarse whisper. The stipendiary would
have done it all very differently. Having no means of defence, Sir Rowland cleared the blood from his vision;
and, turning to see whether there was any means of escape, he descried the open
door behind him leading to the Well Hole, and instantly darted through it. But a middle-aged man like Ramage ought to know
better than to draw out a girl, the daughter of a friend and neighbor. That’s how things are; that’s the order of the world. He renewed
his supplications to Sharples, but with no better success than heretofore; and the
greater part of the night was passed by him and the poor widow, whose anxiety,
if possible, exceeded his own, in the most miserable state imaginable. "
"My writing! no such thing!" ejaculated the lady, casting a look of alarm at the
woollen-draper. By the time she arrived at the Beck’s doorstep, the
morning was risen. "
"Did you discover any trace of footsteps?" inquired Jack eagerly. Take me! take me!"
"Before an hour you shall be mine," said Jonathan advancing towards her. Something with iron resolve the father had kept hidden all
these years in the lonely citadel of his heart. It’s
not a bit of good pretending there’s any Higher Truth or wonderful principle in
this business. Not a breath was drawn.
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