A single false
step might have precipitated him into the street; or, if he had trodden upon an
unsound part of the roof, he must have fallen through it. They happen to a man. Behind the poet came Sir James Thornhill. Wood's daughter,—to
whom, I've heard tell, he was attached years ago,—was brought up, his courage
forsook him altogether, and he trembled, and could scarcely stand. "Perhaps you don't know that this Darrell
so contrived matters, that your child should be mistaken for his own; by which
means it had a narrow escape from a tight cravat, I can assure you. "
"Did I hear you aright?" asked Trenchard, with startling eagerness. Wood, "and take your son with you. What other reason could there
be? It’s more complex, but it’s better. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality;
they were creatures, he thought, either too bad for a modern vocabulary, and then
frequently most undesirably desirable, or too pure and good for life. Accompanied by
Sir Cecil, who still continued passionately enamoured of his sister, and to whom
he represented that she had fallen a victim to the arts of a seducer, he set off, at
fiery speed, for the metropolis. ”
Chapter III
ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer
which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the
following evening. Ruth with Rollo as her guide explored the island. In this cell was a huntsman, who had fractured his skull
while hunting, and was perpetually hallooing after the hounds;—in that, the most
melancholy of all, the grinning gibbering lunatic, the realization of "moody
madness, laughing wild.
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