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“I ate their mother first. ’
‘Couldn’t help but do so, ma’am,’ said Mrs Ibstock. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. Carried out to sea by Van Galgebrok,
and thrown overboard, while struggling with the waves, he had been picked up
by a French fishing-boat, and carried to Ostend. Now then," he
added more calmly, "I am ready to die. It might as well be Melusine
herself. I learned of your
betrothal, gleaned all the information I could simply by
eavesdropping. ToC
Jonathan, meanwhile, having ascertained the parentage of the child from Wood,
proceeded to question him in an under tone, as to the probable motives of the
attempt upon its life; and, though he failed in obtaining any information on this
point, he had little difficulty in eliciting such particulars of the mysterious
transaction as have already been recounted. "
"I am fully aware of it, Sir Rowland," replied Jonathan, coolly; "but I have
nothing to fear; because, in the first place, it will be to your advantage not to
molest me; and, in the second, I am provided against all contingencies. "
Jack was about to comply with the request, when an unlooked-for interruption
occurred. ”
“Do you mean,” Courtlaw asked, “that from now to the end of the six months
you do not wish to see us—any of us?”
Her eyes were a little dim again. For some
seconds of voluminous thinking they looked at the ring between them, and
neither spoke. It was not until the morning of the fifth day that the constant vigil was broken. org. He rather liked the "sir"; it
signified both gratefulness and the chastened spirit.
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