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"On what business, in the name of wonder?" asked Sheppard. ”
“You alarm me,” she murmured, smiling. Mrs. "Where to, master?" asked Ben, touching his woollen cap. "
"There's but one way of clearing it, your worship," said the Master, archly. Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into
the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to
carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time
display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage,
preferred a standing to a sitting posture. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. “Actually, I am, it is terribly stupid. But, this sad affair disposed of, I will not rest till I
have avenged my murdered parents. You have neither reason nor logic. There will be
long stretches of idleness, heat, and enervation; and always the odour of drying
coconut. She felt like a dried-up old woman. Wood's anxiety respecting the fugitive was speedily relieved by hearing
another waterman busy himself in preparation for starting; and, shortly after, the
dip of a second pair of oars sounded upon the river. ’
‘I shall stop him,’ declared the old lady furiously. His letter of credit; probably that was it;
and, observing the strangeness of the room he was in, his first concern on
returning to consciousness would naturally relate to his letter of credit.
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