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THE FRIDAY NIGHT SHOW
The air was chill and the sky overcast and misting. Ruth read:
DEAR SIR:
"We are delighted to accept these four stories, particularly 'The Man
Who Could Not Go Home. Meantime, the Stone Hall was crowded by all the inmates of the jail, debtors,
felons, turnkeys, and officers who could obtain permission to witness the
ceremony of the prisoner's irons being struck off. ’
‘So Charvill did tell him,’ Gerald said, once more staring into the hole in the
wall. . Nobody ever called me John, that I recollect. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. Her cargo is nearly shipped. When she spoke, her lips twitched. “Your name and address were upon an envelope found in the pocket of an
Englishman who was brought here late last night suffering from serious
injuries,” he said in a dry official tone. ’
‘Lord, yes,’ agreed Gerald, in mock horror. She is a woman chosen
in youth for her beauty and her intelligence. She had, it was
true, accepted doubtfully the pen he had offered. ’
‘I was merely drawing your attention to the odd prevalence of French émigrés
claiming English antecedents.
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