"Kidnapped, and sent to France
by one uncle, it was my lot to fall into the hands of another,—my father's own
brother, the Marshal Gaucher de Chatillon; to whom, and to the Cardinal Dubois,
I owed all my good fortune. There was a pause, and then the front door slammed. Both husband
and wife affected an unnatural ease of manner for the benefit of the efficient
parlor-maid, who was putting the finishing touches to the sideboard
arrangements. This done, he unloosed the pulley, and the
ponderous machine, which resembled a trough, slowly descended upon the
prisoner's breast. Sir John, who was
standing outside, looked past him at the girl still sitting in the shadow. "
"Not unless your skull's bullet-proof," cried a voice at his elbow; and, as the
words were uttered, a pistol was snapped at his head, which,—fortunately or
unfortunately, as the reader pleases,—only burnt the priming.
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