Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. There
were one or two bitter moments in his life when he had been made to feel that
gentility laid on with a brush may sometimes crack and show weak places—that
deportment and breeding are after all things apart. She had never seen her sitting on tables nor
heard her discussing theology, and had failed to observe that the graceful figure
was a natural one and not due to ably chosen stays. "She is
in his power, and I am here, chained hand and foot, unable to assist her. "
"I am not unprotected," rejoined the poor woman; "there's some one at the
window. You never can go
back. There was no one at all in this room, but through the half-open door of
one of the small apartments that gave upon it she had a glimpse of two very
young girls sitting at a littered table and writing briskly. "Yes, sir," said McClintock, as he sat down; "that's South Sea stuff, that yarn of
yours. Earles. I shall like to think of it—whenever I feel dull. Having ascertained that a vessel
sails for France from the river at daybreak to-morrow morning, I have secured a
passage in her, and have already had the few effects I possess, conveyed on
board. "
There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the
inclination to confess. You are
NOT going to that ball!”
Ann Veronica tried a less genial, more dignified note. Let's go up
and see how the patient is doing. "
"That, alone, ought to have prevented you from acting as you did, Jack,"
returned Thames, gravely.
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