"The gentleman is a stranger to me, Poll," replied the woollen-draper, with
increased embarrassment. Her heartbeat raced, her limbs turned to water,
and it was only by a miracle and the strength of the arms that held her that she
remained standing on her feet. "
"Now, mark me," said Jonathan, "and you'll find I don't do things by halves. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. She went about in a negligent November London that had become very
dark and foggy and greasy and forbidding indeed, and tried to find that modest
but independent employment she had so rashly assumed. ‘You will take the place of André?’
‘Exactly so. I am up to the ears in it all—
every moment I can spare. By George, I forgot! McClintock
said there was a typewriter in the office and that I could have it. "Miss Thornhill's a
charming girl. “I’d rather go as a chorus-girl,” she said. She
would lure him, as he was an easily tempted child
predator who could even more easily be turned into prey. She is no more English than that set of beggars over there. It
came into her head with real emotional force that this must be some particularly
fantastic sort of dream.
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