Beautiful is the girl of twelve,—who is neither
child nor woman, but something between both, something more exquisite than
either!
Such was the fairy creature presented to Thames Darrell, under the following
circumstances. She was a large, resilient girl, with
a foolish smile, a still more foolish expression of earnestness, and a throaty
contralto voice. On their return, the jailers raised up Jonathan, who was weltering in his blood,
and who appeared to be dying. Vexation at his folly in suffering
himself to be thus entrapped kept Wood for a short time silent. ”
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“Your family?”
“She was my first wife, and because she turned me,
she was like a mother to me. Twice we hired caterers. ”
It came upon him like a flash. Besides these plunderers, there
were others with whom the disposal of their pillage necessarily brought them
into contact, and who seldom failed to attend them during their hours of
relaxation and festivity;—to wit, dealers in junk, old rags, and marine stores,
purchasers of prize-money, crimps, and Jew receivers. One swift glance about the room, and a sensation of grim
foreboding swept through him. "My God! will you see your child strangled before your eyes, and not so much
as scream for help?" said Wood, staring at the widow with a look of surprise and
horror.
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