‘Good, good—and not before time,’ muttered Roding, glancing round again. "I'm a detective; my ears and eyes have been trained to absorb
all I see and all I hear. I haven't touched the other. There was a strip of old rose brocade in
the making that set an ache in the girl's heart for the want of it. I don’t know why that should be so acutely humiliating. The command was sullenly obeyed, for the fellow
did not appear to relish the rating. "You'll feel better after it. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but
imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total
obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which
Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their
intricacies, to thread them on a dark night. Entering the house, he found himself in a narrow passage
leading to the back stairs. "
"Winny, I must go!" said Thames, breaking from her. ‘Monsieur, my wife intended not to anger you,’ he said in a tone of apology. "
"I should like to satisfy myself on that score," rejoined Wild, drily. The sense of publicity, of people coming and going about them, kept them
both unemotional. "As you please, Sir Rowland," returned Jonathan, with affected indifference;
"but I'm not going to hunt the deer for another to eat the ven'son, depend on 't.
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