"By G—! she has missed her footing. But it is all
over now, and presently there will be some one else. Of course I tripped right when I went to
school at seven in the morning, so I sat in the Nurse’s
office for six hours until my Dad got off work! It hurt,
too, and they aren’t allowed to give children painkillers. Martha had been more to her than that. Arrived at the audience-chamber, he set down the light upon a stand,
threw open the door, and announced in a loud voice, but with the perfect
intonation of the person he represented,—"Sir Rowland Trenchard. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a
large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly
dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal
lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and
tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and
female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in
drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. I have work there. And now I find, when it is too late,
that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. She came originally of
country stock, and had been virtually in sole charge of Melusine almost from the
hour of her birth—a thankless task, as Melusine had heard her bemoan countless
times, with the rider that she had carried it out with a conspicuous lack of
success. Soon they came to treat Lucy almost as mother,
pulling hard at her brown curls and laughing delightedly
as they sprang back into their spiral shape.
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