“I love you, Anna, and I
want you for my wife. The latter appeared to contain several papers,
which Jack carefully put by, in the hope that they might turn out of importance in
a scheme of vengeance which he meditated against the thief-taker. His invalid wife and her
money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that
permanent relation had been an inter-weaving series of other feminine
experiences, disturbing, absorbing, interesting, memorable affairs. Seeing from the threatening looks of his captors, that they were
about to wreak their vengeance upon him, the miserable wretch besought mercy
in abject terms, and charged his master with the most atrocious crimes. ’ She
shook her head. He was never drunk in the
accepted meaning of the word; rather he walked in a kind of stupefaction. ‘But I do not pay
this penalty. She was supposed to be reading at home,
and after breakfast she strolled into the vegetable garden, and having taken up a
position upon the staging of a disused greenhouse that had the double advantage
of being hidden from the windows of the house and secure from the sudden
appearance of any one, she resumed the reading of Mr. "Vell, vell," growled Sharples, after he had listened to the other's remonstrances,
"it shall be done. At last she glanced at a little clock in the corner of the
room, and sprang to her feet. White looked mysteriously about the room as though to be sure that no one
was listening.
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