”
The detective turned again to Anna. “Why, it’s David!” he exclaimed. Aha!" he
continued, producing a short silver staff, which he carried constantly about with
him, and uttering a terrible imprecation, "I see you're confounded. "
This exclamation had scarcely escaped him, when the discharge of a pistol was
heard, and a bullet whizzed past his ears. Let me recommend a glass of wine. Taking a
firm grasp of his pistol, Gerald eased back, let go the handle of the door, and at
the same instant, swung his booted foot. But you belong to me—and I want you. "
The course of the carpenter's meditations was here interrupted by a loud note of
lamentation from the child, who, disturbed by the transfer, and not receiving the
gentle solace to which he was ordinarily accustomed, raised his voice to the
utmost, and exerted his feeble strength to escape. After the sights he would have to twiddle his thumbs until the joints cracked. But, you see, she HAS to lie up. Drive away the cat; throw
that measure of gin through the window; and tell me why you've not so much as
touched the packing-case for Lady Trafford, which I particularly desired you to
complete against my return. ”
He smiled at the naiveté of her suggestion. ToC
Early in the morning of Thursday, the 15th of October, 1724, the door of the
Castle was opened by Austin, who, with a look of unusual importance,
announced to the prisoner that four gentlemen were shortly coming up with the
governor to see him,—"four such gentlemen," he added, in a tone meant to
impress his auditor with a due sense of the honour intended him, "as you don't
meet every day. I'll turn cracksman, like my father—rob old
Wood—he has chests full of money, and I know where they're kept—I'll rob
him, and give the swag to you, Poll—I'll—"
Jack would have said more; but, losing his balance, he fell to the ground, and,
when taken up, he was perfectly insensible. “You’re—I don’t know,” said Ann Veronica.
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