Very soon
she would be able to forget it. Immediately beneath her lay
Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the
metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey
church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. ‘You make a game with me, I think. She held out her hand for it, but Gerald smiled. Annabel had taken her life into her hands with gay insouciance, had made
her own friends, gone her own way. "
With this assurance, and at the reiterated request of Thames, the little girl
reluctantly withdrew. "So, you're admiring my cabinet, Sir Rowland," he remarked, with a sinister
smile; "it is generally admired; and, sometimes by parties who afterwards
contribute to the collection themselves,—ha! ha! This skull," he added, pointing
to a fragment of mortality in the case beside them, "once belonged to Tom
Sheppard, the father of the lad I spoke of just now. ’
Pierced to the heart by the poignancy of this utterance, Gerald could neither
move nor speak. Presently.
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