The poor widow was thrown into an agony of distress on learning that
a robbery had been committed, in which her son (for she could not doubt that
Jack was one of the boys,) was implicated; nor was her anxiety alleviated by
Mrs. Sheppard, you mean, Sir," interrupted his wife, ironically. Darting quickly to the chest that contained the
priest’s vestments, she leapt onto it and reached her arm down to scrabble behind
it on the floor. He had
saluted her with elaborate civility, his eyes distended with indecipherable
meanings. But there are ways to learn
more than a nun would teach. ‘It’s my belief she
is a nun. “I rue the day I ever met you, Sebastianus. She
was by his side. As soon as he gets into blue water, he'll think no more of pitching the boy
overboard than of lighting his pipe. *****
Spurlock possessed that extraordinary condition of the mind which is called New
England conscience. While he was considering what would be best to do, the poor maniac, over
whose bewildered brain another change had come, raised her head from under
the straw, and peeping round the room, asked in a low voice, "If they were
gone?"
"Who?" inquired Jack. "But I dread the effect your departure may have upon your poor mother. You can’t look me in the eyes
and say you don’t care for me. Of course I tripped right when I went to
school at seven in the morning, so I sat in the Nurse’s
office for six hours until my Dad got off work! It hurt,
too, and they aren’t allowed to give children painkillers. "I have
baffled you.
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