Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. I shall only pray that I may reward you for all your
goodness to me. CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. Sheppard broke from him, and filled the room with her shrieks. They were only passers-by. One transgression; he was sure of that. “Let’s go outside. A maidservant held the
front door open. Applying his ear to the keyhole, Jack
listened, but could detect no sound. Recurrently she heard: "I don't know; I really don't know. It would make my wife very happy.
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