He had often read about it, and once he had incorporated
it in a story, that invisible force which sent men to prison and to the gallows,
when a tongue controlled would have meant liberty indefinite. Man's fate is in his own hands. "But pray tell me if her
husband has escaped?"
"Her husband!" echoed Jonathan scornfully. "
Not a little perplexed by the mysterious object she had seen, Rachel left the
room, and, shortly afterwards returned with the materials of a tolerably good
supper;—to wit, a couple of cold fowls, a tongue, the best part of a sirloin of
beef, a jar of pickles, and two small dishes of pastry. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. It was a clear, lovely, October morning. ’
‘The nuns?’ she said, gazing at him innocently. ’ But I
made sure it was you. And, when I have seen him pining away
before my eyes, getting thinner and thinner every day, I have sometimes thought
my prayers were heard. ’
‘Now you come to mention it, it is stupid,’ Gerald said, struck.
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