But that Chink, Ah Cum! O'Higgins chuckled as he passed into the hall and
rested his hand on the newel-post of the staircase. She had very few clear
memories before a particular day in the library, when they
had finished one of her first reading lessons. "
"It'll be over in a few minutes," rejoined Jonathan, impatiently; "in fact, it'll be
over too soon for me. The man had favoured him with
a brief nod, but the girl had gone so far as to offer a tiny smile, and a look under
her lashes with which not even Gerald, for all his scant interest in female society,
could fail to be familiar. I barely prevailed
sometimes, but in the end, my wits were faster than their
steel. I'll put a brace of
dogs on your track, who'll soon hunt you down. Unless he has dealings with the devil, he could never have done
this alone. If only there had not been this single torturing thought—a mere pin-prick, but
still curiously persistent. I am aware that you ran away from
there, but—’
‘Certainly I ran away,’ she said, meeting his gaze with defiance in her own. He then
mounted the jaded hack, which had long since regained its legs, and was quietly
browsing the grass at the road-side, and, striking spurs into its side, rode off. "
"Wood!" exclaimed Trenchard,—"of Wych Street?"
"The same. Gerald had been confident that the boy would not dream of
disobeying an order thrown at him by a major of militia, but he guessed Jack
might be wondering if he was about to be haled off to prison.
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