Nothing
could exceed the dismay of these personages when they learnt why they had
been summoned. She sat on the edge of her bed and looked about her, at her room, at the row of
black-covered books and the pig’s skull. Advancing towards Wood, Jonathan fixed his keen gray eyes upon him, and
demanded, in a stern tone whether the persons who had taken refuge in the
adjoining house, were bailiffs. She posed herself before her mirror and surveyed herself with
gravely thoughtful, gravely critical, and yet admiring eyes. It has been already intimated that Jack had an
excessive passion for finery; and it might have been added, that the chief part of
his ill-gotten gains was devoted to the embellishment of his person. She asked no further questions for the moment. Ruth did not consider it necessary, however, to add that she had not notified this
aunt of her coming, that she did not know whether the aunt still resided in
Hartford or was underground. "
"Peace!" retorted Jack, with increased bitterness. She recalled that day of the typhoon
and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs. ‘Well, what was I to think, miss? Martha never wrote nothing about you, and I
did ask.
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