But this wild scheme was speedily abandoned; and, nerved by despair,
the carpenter resolved to hazard an attempt, from the execution, almost from the
contemplation, of which he had hitherto shrunk. Then he
turned to Anna. With me
behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And
just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate
intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally
distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson
ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. The only part of his
otherwise-interesting countenance, to which one could decidedly object, was the
mouth; a feature that, more than any other, is conceived to betray the animal
propensities of the possessor. Not that there had ever been any hope of that. She saw her aunt in
tears, her father white-faced and hard hit.
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