‘You are a born rebel, ma’am, and I can see now where she
gets it from. It was you who were so much amazed that I did not
try—the music hall stage here. Drink the toast, Jack. . "
"The pianist?"
"Yes. She sought hastily in her mind for a
plausible answer to an obvious question that didn’t come. Thames sprang to his feet, and half drew his sword, while Wood, removing his
spectacles to assure himself that his eyes did not deceive him, exclaimed in a
tone and with a look that betrayed the extremity of surprise—"Jack Sheppard!"
"Jack Sheppard!" echoed the maid. And all to find that picture of Mary Remenham. When at first she had realized that he
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had conducted a sexual affair with a local well-known
Florentine courtesan she called him out, accusing him of
exposing her to an array of diseases. Something
insisted that those two were mysteriously linked—that the woman knew the man
was there. The evenings were beginning to draw
out, and it would not be dark for an hour. At the back of the house, on a
bank, rose an old-fashioned terrace-garden, full of apple-trees and other fruittrees in blossom, and lively with the delicious verdure of early spring. But her heart kept on sinking. Listen to your mother's prayers, and do not let her die brokenhearted. The latter were
saved; but of the former nothing but the blackened stone walls were found
standing on the morrow.
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