‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. She decided not to ask
him outright if he wished to make love to her. CHAPTER V. I spend many delightful hours thinking of the pleasant and
beautiful things of life. He had no wish to go foraging in Spurlock's trunk. . "My wife and daughter, Sir," said the carpenter, introducing them to his guest. But, as he made no answer, he was removed. Wild," he
added, laughing, "it must be a stronger prison than Willesden cage that can hold
me. "Well, you never can tell," he continued, lamely. ’
‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald. Voilà tout. ‘Or flew in by balloon, perhaps. For
my blood you made it very hot indeed. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife.
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