“I wish he had,” she said. ”
“Of course,” he said, reaching out his hand tentatively for his hat, “I could go
away even now. From this perturbed state he was roused by thoughts
of his mother, and fancying he heard her gentle voice urging him on to fresh
exertion, he started up. “I am sick of it. The operation was effected with so much rapidity and so
little noise, that even if any one had been on the alert, he could scarcely have
detected it. Probably his first
serious bout with John Barleycorn. Wood's at Dollis Hill, wholly unsuspicious of any designs against him, and, in
fact, entirely ignorant of your being acquainted with his return, or even of his
existence. "I have not told you half. He righted a chair and sat in
it, his face in his hands. Besides, it was under false pretences. "Goodness only knows what he's reserved for," rejoined the widow in a
desponding tone; "but if Mynheer Van Galgebrok, whom I met last night at the
Cross Shovels, spoke the truth, little Jack will never die in his bed. I know less about this affair perhaps than you suppose. “One moment, if you please!”
She stopped short and looked round. The action steadied him; and there was a phase of irony, too, that
helped. Lucy could see Diane’s clear dislike of her, the
foster background she had come from, and the single
mysterious episode with the police that had inflamed the
gossips from all the corners of town.
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