Just one thing more. She
seemed just as stiff and shy as a girl ought to be, Lady Palsworthy thought,
neither garrulous nor unready, and free from nearly all the heavy aggressiveness,
the overgrown, overblown quality, the egotism and want of consideration of the
typical modern girl. Jonathan, however, was well
acquainted with the road. So, after the dinner was over, Spurlock took her home; and worked far into the
night. “And children must we women bear—
“Oh, damn!” she cried, as the hundred-and-first couplet or so presented itself
in her unwilling brain. . She dare not risk it. 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.
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