This child at once alarmed and thrilled them. ’
Gerald stood back, and watched her cross the room to the closed French doors. Obeying
some fine instinct, she had come to the prison in a dark veil, but she had pushed
this up to kiss Ann Veronica and never drawn it down again. He
was almost paralyzed with nervousness and desire. By the time he had reached the summit of this hill, he had lost all trace of them;
and the ardour of the chase having in some measure subsided, he began to
reproach himself for his folly, in having wandered—as he conceived—so far out
of his course. "
"Take time to consider of it," replied Wood sulkily, "there's no hurry. Just as the attendants were preparing to lower the corpse into the earth, Jack fell
on his knees beside the coffin, uttering the wildest exclamations of grief,
reproaching himself with the murder of his mother, and invoking the vengeance
of Heaven on his own head. Too close, he
reasoned, for safety. As she crossed the square, almost within a stone’s throw of her lodgings, she
came face to face with Courtlaw. It warms me, and lights me, and fills my world with flowers. Exerting all his energies, and using the bar as a lever, he forced
off the iron band, which was full seven feet high, seven inches wide, and two
thick, and which brought with it in its fall the box of the lock and the socket of
the bolt, leaving no further hinderance. "
"As many as you please," replied Wood, walking towards the chimney-piece,
and taking down a constable's, staff, which hung upon a nail. "
So saying, he violently shut and locked the door.
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