A knot of three policemen in
conflict with her staggered toward Ann Veronica’s attendants and distracted their
attention. He taught her theories about mathematics and science
that he invented, theories that were the latest in scientific
discovery and that the Church would have considered
heretical in nature. 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. He speaks English. . I know that in my heart I would take whatever he
gave. Take care he don't see you,—and bring me word where he goes,
and what he does. "Do you hear that! We are not
wholly at fault. The costume of this
personage was somewhat singular, and might have passed for a masquerading
habit, had not the imperturbable gravity of his demeanour forbidden any such
supposition. I wish”—
she found she had embarked on a bad sentence—“I wish we needn’t have
quarrelled. Before leaving the place he
looked upwards, and could just discern the blue vault and pale stars of Heaven
through an iron grating at the top. “It’s very good,” she
said. ” She tried to sound
convincing as she looked away hotly. She calls us her guests, but in reality we are her
prisoners. A hazy face appeared through the fog
of sleep, pale and thin and looming.
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