"I can readily see,"
he said, "why you'll always be as poor as a church mouse. They cleaned up the mess as best
they could and she went home with him docilely. He had
done this a dozen times on the way from his office. But I'll not believe it of you. . “I——”
The door opened, and the doctor entered softly. Every gibbet at Tyburn and Hounslow appeared to have been
plundered of its charnel spoil to enrich the adjoining cabinet, so well was it
stored with skulls and bones, all purporting to be the relics of highwaymen
famous in their day. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. She dived at once behind the cover of the lamproom and affected serious trouble with her shoe-lace until he was out of the
station, and then she followed slowly and with extreme discretion until the
bifurcation of the Avenue from the field way insured her escape. The coffin was lowered into the grave, and the
mourners departed. While the girl kept
the patient from dwelling upon his misfortunes, whatever these were, he himself
would have to keep the girl from brooding over hers. "Kidnapped, and sent to France
by one uncle, it was my lot to fall into the hands of another,—my father's own
brother, the Marshal Gaucher de Chatillon; to whom, and to the Cardinal Dubois,
I owed all my good fortune. ”
“If you can tear yourself away from this delightful place in five minutes,” she
answered, “I think I can get rid of the others. He looked about for his hat, and put it on.
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