Slowly a mirthless and very unpleasant smile dawned upon his face. ‘I know that, miss. But no more of that. I demand
it as a right. How long has Miss Charvill been in England?’
‘Not long, sir. Here, without a glimpse of daylight; visited by
no one except Austin at stated intervals, who neither answered a question nor
addressed a word to him; fed upon the worst diet, literally mouldy bread and
ditch-water; surrounded by stone walls; with a flagged floor for his pillow, and
without so much as a blanket to protect him from the death-like cold that pierced
his frame,—Jack's stout heart was subdued, and he fell into the deepest
dejection, ardently longing for the time when even a violent death should
terminate his sufferings. "Oh! no—no—no," cried Winifred, "I cannot believe it. He begged their attention
for the next turn. ’
‘Willingly?’
‘Parbleu, what a person you think me. And afterward she saw a very much larger and more enthusiastic gathering, a
meeting of the advanced section of the woman movement in Caxton Hall, where
the same note of vast changes in progress sounded; and she went to a soiree of
the Dress Reform Association and visited a Food Reform Exhibition, where
imminent change was made even alarmingly visible.
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