She was obliged, as she explained
continually to every one who cared to listen, to be so very particular. "
CHAPTER XIII. ”
“Check for yourself in the driveway. Besides these there was a warm gooseberry-tart, and
a cold pigeon pie—the latter capacious enough, even allowing for its due
complement of steak, to contain the whole produce of a dovecot; a couple of
lobsters and the best part of a salmon swimming in a sea of vinegar, and shaded
by a forest of fennel. "
Here Ruth returned with the broth; and McClintock strode aft, convinced that he
was going to have something far more interesting than books to read. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife. He uttered one word over and over, monotonously:
"Fool! … Fool!"
But invariably the touch of Ruth's hand quieted him, and his head would cease to
roll from side to side. Raising the bowl in his right hand, Jack glanced towards the balcony,
in which the group of ladies were seated, and begged to drink their healths; he
then turned to Kneebone and the others, who extended their hands towards him,
and raised it to his lips. "
With this praiseworthy determination, he was hastening down stairs, with the
utmost rapidity, when he encountered a female, whom he took, in the darkness,
to be Mrs. "Nothing whatever," rejoined the thief-taker, coldly. Confound this slavery of sex! I am a man! I will get this
under if I am killed in doing it!”
She scowled into the cold blacknesses about her. ‘I’ve never before made love at pistol
point. Her moods were many and always striking. The three clerks fought for the only window, and saw her whisked into a
hansom.
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