She could not see what occurred, though she guessed it; but she saw
Jonathan's devilish triumphing glance, and read in it,—"Your son has committed
a robbery—here—in these holy walls—he is mine—mine for ever!"
She uttered a loud scream, and fainted. Mr. Purney, the ordinary, who had latterly conceived a great
regard for Jack, addressed him in a discourse, which, while it tended to keep
alive his feelings of penitence, was calculated to afford him much consolation. "I suppose I must have been senseless
for some time; for, on coming to myself, I found this gash in my head, and the
ground covered with blood. What about that?"
"It means that drink cheats a man into telling things he ought not to. When she was quite sure that he was gone she took her
sister’s note from the mantelpiece and slowly broke the seal. "
The desperate eagerness to go with him—and she dared not voice it! She
watched him until McClintock joined him and the two made off toward the
south. ’
‘Who, Joan, who? Of whom do you speak?’
‘Mrs Sindlesham. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. Returning to the audience-chamber in a by-no-means enviable state of mind, he
commanded the Jew to throw the body of Thames into the Well Hole. “It is against my
husband’s orders, and I am not sure that my sister will be particularly glad to see
me.
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