Acting upon this humane determination, he impelled himself slowly
backwards,—for he did not dare to face the blast,—and with incredible labour
and fatigue reached the crevice. Sheppard remained dissolved in tears. Jackson!"
"So he would," replied the latter: "so he would. The letter began:
“MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—”
She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate
gesture flung them into the fire. Then suddenly he seized a new
preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a
week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it
across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the
bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of
re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor. How she hated talking of the man who was
responsible for her being brought into the world. But his lips were honourlocked. What she actually wanted was the present
state of affairs to continue indefinitely.
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