"A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for
doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. "
So saying, he threw himself into a chair. Kneebone!"
"That you would not accept him were he to offer—"
"Be silent, Sir. I'll have my man Wu over here as soon as I
can get in touch with him. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. Jack's former attempt to pass up the chimney, it may be remembered, was
obstructed by an iron bar. It was you, of course, whom he wanted. "
"Her ladyship will pass through it?"
"Of course; there's no other way. She felt a little
ashamed of herself, a bit of a hypocrite. The Dawn Pearl. ’
‘Not French?’ echoed Hilary.
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