The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still
the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the
same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about
them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. Whenever Jack
attempted to speak, he was checked by an angry growl from Abraham; and
Thames, though his heart was full almost to bursting, felt no inclination to break
the silence. For most of a long and fluctuating night she was fairly confident that she
would find work; she knew herself to be strong, intelligent, and capable by the
standards of most of the girls she knew. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. He was the true optimist; and that he should proceed, serenely
unconscious of reefs and storms, she accepted the double buffets. The beachcomber, the lowest in the
human scale; and some day he would enter into this estate. I have not found the secret
way into the house, for instance. Still, one never could tell. She had need of a devoted
cavalier and Jack had proved eminently valuable.
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