Something softened in Melusine’s chest. “My dear man,” she exclaimed, “wasn’t that a foregone conclusion?”
“You treat the matter lightly,” he continued. After debating with
himself for some time whether he should employ an assistant, or make the
attempt alone, his love of gain overcame his fears, and he decided upon the latter
plan. Earles
regarded it approvingly. Forgive me, but you have been looking, have you not, for
some employment?”
“Quite true!” she answered. ’
‘And was not she put out?’ demanded Miss Froxfield with a tinkling laugh. After repeatedly trying to remove the plate, which was so
firmly screwed down that it resisted all his efforts, and vainly attempting to pick
it with the spike and nail; he, at length, after half an hour's ineffectual labour,
wrenched off the box by means of the iron bar, and the door, as he laughingly
expressed it, "became his humble servant.
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