While the watermen were contending with the eddies
occasioned by the fall below the bridge, Jonathan observed a perceptible shudder
run through Trenchard's frame. But if his frame was immature,
his looks were not so. A stiff, formally-cut
coat of cinnamon-coloured cloth, with rows of plate buttons, each of the size of a
crown piece, on the sleeves, pockets, and skirts, reached the middle of his legs;
and his costume was completed by the silver-hilted sword at his side, and the
laced hat under his left arm. “I knew
that you waited at the farmhouse. "
"Suffer me to proceed," replied the stranger. " It was
only a shade better than the Stone Hold. As a matter of fact I have been waiting for you. Rain changed to hail, then
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sleet, then snow. “You need have no further
trouble. Later in the evening she heard him whistling, poor
man!
She felt very restless and excited. Now when I tell you exactly the
truth, you will also not believe me. We mustn’t make it so. 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.
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