Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. We have met
before. A diversion was created by the violent struggles of the little old lady. “It is Michelle, John. I was trying to get away
from him!”
“Martin’s going to be at the Vorsack’s house tonight!
He’ll be waiting for you!”
“John, it’s Michelle, like I told you, she’s. ‘Gérard—’
‘What now?’ he asked, rife with suspicion. While the strife was raging, Edgeworth Bess walked up to Rachel, and
advised her, if she valued her life, not to scream or stir from the spot; a caution
which the housekeeper, whose curiosity far outweighed her fears, received in
very good part. Quilt's manner, indeed, was that of a man endeavouring to muster up sufficient
resolution for the commission of some desperate crime.
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