And next morning she attired
herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a
post-office, and went to him. Her
secret thoughts made some hasty, half-hearted excursions into the possibility of
telling the thing in romantic tones—Ramage was as a black villain, she as a
white, fantastically white, maiden. "
"A boy from his shop was here a short time ago. Because of the thought of love and companionship? No. He had shaved his side-whiskers and come over in flannels, but
he was still indisputably the same person who had attended Ann Veronica for the
measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. As
she hoisted her skirts near her waist, she thought ruefully
of the last time she had worn such an elaborate gown,
sometime near 1910 when petticoats were still considered
hip everyday garb. To her satisfaction, the captain reddened a trifle. "
Not a little perplexed by the mysterious object she had seen, Rachel left the
room, and, shortly afterwards returned with the materials of a tolerably good
supper;—to wit, a couple of cold fowls, a tongue, the best part of a sirloin of
beef, a jar of pickles, and two small dishes of pastry. She could hardly remember his face except
for his brown hair, thick lips, and narrow dark eyes. So far, however, was this submission from producing the desired effect, that it
seemed only to lend additional fuel to her displeasure. "
"Your hesitation is not in your favour," observed Trenchard, sternly. "It is with no small
concern," writes an anonymous historian of Newgate, "that I am obliged to
observe that the women in every ward of this prison are exceedingly worse than
the worst of the men not only in respect to their mode of living, but more
especially as to their conversation, which, to their great shame, is as profane and
wicked as hell itself can possibly be. "
"Are you a nurse?"
"Yes. Do you think I would marry you? Rather would I marry the pig in
the convent. “I was half hoping that I might be
allowed to see you home.
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