‘Not at all
ladylike. He added, ‘Also others, but I don’t recall them. “I shall have to give up biology, anyhow. ”
She thanked him with one of her shy little glances. The horror of those few
minutes was still with her. "No," rejoined Thames, "I won't be treated like a common felon, if I can help it. “Impossible to say,” he answered. He wasn't satisfied
with an assured income from the paper-mills your grandfather left us. “I gave your name. Go quickly and call him. “You frighten me!”
He smiled at her indulgently. The walls
were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of
hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own
audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place
of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid
across joint-stools. His gangling body was clothed in rusty twill trousers and a long black
seersucker coat, buttoned to the throat, around which ran a collar which would
have marked him the world over as a man of the Word. A moment afterwards, the street was illumined by a blaze of torchlight, and a
tumultuous uproar, mixed with the clashing of weapons, and the braying of
horns, announced the arrival of the first detachment of Minters.
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