The summer arrived, speeding the
Plague and with it the famine in the streets. Manning questioned whether when they
were bad they were really beautiful or when they were beautiful bad. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. ”
The tired woman sat still for a moment. You didn’t see me fall into a swoon when you cursed just now, did
you?’
‘I’m beginning to doubt if anything less than a sledgehammer would send you
into a swoon,’ Gerald retorted. He
fancied that the whole fabric of the bridge was cracking over head,—that the
arch was tumbling upon him,—that the torrent was swelling around him,
whirling him off, and about to bury him in the deafening abyss. It has been a
marvellous day—and I am going to England. Then she
went into the office. ”
He paused, and went on, after a keen look at her:
“I had rather gossip to a really intelligent girl than to any man alive. "
"That child may be the means of saving me," muttered the stranger, as if struck
by a new idea: "I shall gain time by the expedient. "Rot, weren't they?"
"No. 1. . ’
Gerald frowned. Annabel, tell me that you did not wish me dead.
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