He left the room, presumably to sleep
elsewhere, but the only other room with a fire was the
servant’s quarters. 181
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MICHELLE’S STORY
The week at school was mostly uneventful save
Michelle’s enthusiasm and constant ploys for attention. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. And the infant, in all
probability, would have been snatched from its preserver, if a posse of the watch
(sent out to maintain order and protect property) had not opportunely arrived,
and by a vigorous application of their halberts dispersed his persecutors, and set
him at liberty. ’
‘So I see. Hill,” she said
graciously. It was approached from the street by a flight of broad
stone steps, leading to a ponderous door, plated with iron, and secured on the
inner side by huge bolts, and a lock, with wards of a prodigious size.
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