“Did he tell you, Annabel?”
“Yes. Nigel Ennison, Annabel. "
"A bold resolution," said the woollen-draper. 8 or
1. ToC
Jack was scarcely concealed when the door opened, and the two persons of
whom he had caught a glimpse below entered the room. His gangling body was clothed in rusty twill trousers and a long black
seersucker coat, buttoned to the throat, around which ran a collar which would
have marked him the world over as a man of the Word. "From Lady Trafford's, where I took the box. No
doubt that was due to his helplessness. She moved then, fast, taking refuge
behind a Chinese screen that was set beside the four-poster at the back of the
room. "
There was a momentary and terrible silence, broken only by a few feeble groans. But a doll that rolled its eyes and had
flaxen hair! Except for the manual labour—there had been natives to fetch and
carry—she and Cosette were sisters in loneliness. Yours?"
The stranger hesitated. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. ”
“The explanation seems to me to be reasonably simple,” Annabel said coldly. The general did what he might to hush it up, and paid
handsomely to manage it, I daresay.
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