’
‘I have English a little,’ the girl offered, her voice shaking as she essayed a
smile and sank into a curtsy. It was after all a momentary affair. "Well, Jack," he said, after a pause, "are you disposed to go back quietly with
me?"
"You'll ascertain that when you attempt to touch me," rejoined Sheppard,
resolutely. "Take her," cried Jonathan; and, flinging the now inanimate body of the poor
widow, who had fainted in the struggle, into the arms of Thames, he leapt
through the window, and by the time the latter could consign her to Wood, and
dart after him, he had disappeared. The
Dawn Pearl; how well they had named her! The pearl without price—his and not
his!
He took her arm and drew it under his; and together they went down the veranda
steps. I suppose I believe in God. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. Hitchings, who seem to be absolutely engrossed
in one another, and a boy of about seventeen, who no sooner got here than he
discovered that he wanted to see a man in the promenade and disappeared. "
"Are they good?"
"He can write; but he hasn't found anything real to write about. I think we
rest here until to-morrow?”
There was a brief silence.
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