‘And if you like, I will tell you why. "
Something in the child's voice, something in her manner, warned the spinster
that her well-meaning inquisitiveness had received a set-back and that it would
be dangerous to press it forward again. "Ah! Owen Wood, is it you?" cried David in astonishment. Nothing could occupy her attention long today, unless it
concerned her situation. So frightful, indeed, were the ravages of this malady, to
which debtors and felons were alike exposed, that its miserable victims were
frequently carried out by cart-loads, and thrown into a pit in the burial-ground of
Christ-church, without ceremony. ’
‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom
all the same. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect. C.
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