The thought of
their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact—
disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. Did he not look for her in
the morning when she entered—come very quickly to her? She thought of him
as she had last seen him looking down the length of the laboratory to see her go. "But your threats
won't prevent my leaving the room when I please, and as I please. She felt as
if she had struck them unawares. Presently, two carriages dashed down the hill, and drew
up before it. Manning’s letter. Wood, popping her head
through the window. Her eyes were lit with
mirth, the corners of her mouth quivered. "Stolen by a gipsy when scarcely five years
old, Constance Trenchard, after various vicissitudes, was carried to London,
where she lived in great poverty, with the dregs of society. "
"That's me," interposed Jonathan; "a thief-taker is always a murderer in the eyes
of a thief. It did not take a mind reader to glean that she had
suddenly gained the boy’s obsessive attention. He
regarded that perennial miracle of pinning with wrathful eyes. No mercenary consideration influences me. ’
‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom
all the same.
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