She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by
various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape
with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of
widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a
linsey-woolsey shawl. "Poor little
creature!" he muttered, pressing it tenderly to his breast, as he grasped the rope
and clambered up to the window: "if thou hast, indeed, lost both thy parents, as
that terrible man said just now, thou art not wholly friendless and deserted, for I
myself will be a father to thee! And in memory of this dreadful night, and the
death from which I have, been the means of preserving thee, thou shalt bear the
name of THAMES DARRELL. . ”
He stalked around the room. ’
‘Ah, so that’s where Valade comes in,’ nodded Lucy. I'll see. "
"On the contrary, if that is a specimen, they must be poets. "
CHAPTER XIX. Her
breath came fast in little sobbing pants. ”
“Ye—e—es. Sheppard. The law would accord
her all her previous rights: she would return to the exact status out of which in
his madness he had taken her. Be silent, I say, if you value his safety. Anything else that was said she now regarded only as an
aspect of or diversion from that.
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