She glanced at the Frenchman, and found him struggling with the portrait that
was embedded around his scalp. ’
‘Gracious heaven, Gerald! If your dear mama could not drag you to the altar, I
am hardly likely to succeed. She had traversed perhaps three bookshelves, passed across the door that must
lead to the hall, turned the corner, and was just about to reach the fireplace when
she abruptly became aware that something under her fingers had felt wrong. Nothing disheartened by this survey, Jack set to work upon the lock, which he
attacked with all his implements;—now attempting to pick it with the nail;—
now to wrench it off with the bar: but all without effect. “When one wants a thing more than anything else in the world,” she said with
outrageous frankness, “one naturally wishes one had it. This
circumstance produced no further alteration in his demeanour except that he
endeavoured to abstract himself from the surrounding scene, and bend his
attention to the prayers which the ordinary was reciting.
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