Doctors constantly admonished and offered weak
consolation that most would have been hurt much worse
from the type of fall he took. He brought home her first “meal”, a man who he
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claimed was a highwayman who had raped several women
and was destined for the hangman’s noose. She wondered why he was so
distinctive, so unlike other men, and it never occurred to her for some time that
this might be because she was falling in love with him. ”
And while he talked and watched her as he talked, she answered, and behind
her listening watched and thought about him. Another horn now resounded from the further extremity of the thoroughfare; this
was answered by a third; and presently a fourth, and more remote blast, took up
the note of alarm. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife.
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