So, step by step,
and hurt by hurt, Ruth was learning that John Smith was John Smith and nobody
else. "
But seeing that no notice was taken of the retort, he drew a little aside, and
folded his arms, muttering, "This whim will soon be over. Amid this portentous hush, the report of a pistol reached the carpenter's ears;
and, raising his head at the sound, he beheld a sight which filled him with fresh
apprehensions. Urging his steed along Oxford Road,—
as that great approach to the metropolis was then termed,—he soon passed
Marylebone Lane, beyond which, with the exception of a few scattered houses,
the country was completely open on the right, and laid out in pleasant fields and
gardens; nor did he draw in the rein until he arrived at Tyburn-gate, where,
before he turned off upon the Edgeware Road, he halted for a moment, to glance
at the place of execution. Then the foremost
bowed and passed on. She was sitting on the mean straw mattress that was placed on the
iron bedstead in the makeshift cell, while Melusine stood with her back to the
door, confronting her old nurse with the truth. Mary
Remenham had passed on her every feature to the daughter whose advent had
taken her from this world. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the
burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a
coquette. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. It came to Spurlock suddenly that if something did
not react in his favour inside of five minutes, he was done. I stole
away and walked to the railway station. ”
“Well?”
“Sir John came to me—that you know—and you can guess what I told him. For many of them it will smirch us forever.
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