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"I thought you told me that the rascal who has so long been the terror of the town
—Jack Sheppard—was in custody. ”
“Well, I have two,” said Mr. Odd, but he had
never thought of the beach until this girl (who looked as if she had stepped out of
the family album) referred to it with a familiarity which was as astonishing as it
was profoundly sad. The tapstress was full of curiosity;
but she appeared more easy than the others. She threw out a hand to stop
herself from cannoning into them and, losing balance, tripped over her own
petticoats and fell to the carpeted floor, her hat falling off as she did so. She passed inside and upstairs without
a word. Mr. O'Higgins followed him into the dining room. “I don’t know how, but I always manage to find a
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fiddle if there is one around. ”
“Then you had better ring the bell,” she declared, laughing. "My sister the wife of one condemned felon! the
parent of another! It cannot be. . . "
"He is certainly extremely youthful-looking and very slightly made," said
Thornhill, who had been attentively studying Sheppard's countenance. Heaven knows why! They don’t marry most of us off now until
high up in the twenties.
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