“I cannot but conclude,” he said, “that your errand involved the recital to my
wife of some trouble in which you find yourself. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden
and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that
his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain
some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to
be turned to account hereafter. But he had always felt (he had never allowed himself to think of it) that the
promptitude of their family was a little indelicate of her, and in a sense an
intrusion. He
died when I was. But it strikes me there's a nigger in the woodpile somewhere, as
you Yankees say. There
stood John and Mr. It was impossible to meet the motion bodily. ”
“I resent!”
“I was only sorry I’d been so stupid. If only this man had
been her father! The world would have meant nothing; the island would have
been wide enough. "
The hint was not lost upon Wood. Beneath the hood it was evident that her rebellious hair was bound up
with red silk, and fastened by some device in her ears (unless she had them
pierced, which was too dreadful a thing to suppose!) were long brass filigree
earrings. He carried a cane and a silk hat with a mourning-band
in one gray-gloved hand; his frock-coat and trousers were admirable; his
handsome face, his black mustache, his prominent brow conveyed an eager
solicitude. He wore a battered sunhelmet, a loin-cloth and a pair of dilapidated canvas shoes. Manning,” she said, “I HAVE a
confession to make. Lucy wore it every day from then on.
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