"
"But it is the sight of you!"
"All right, Hoddy. Get it off your soul. "Very well," said Rachel, with a toss of her pretty head, "very well. It was as if she had grown right past her father into
something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been
unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other
side. A grimy, battered object, which had no place in the fashionable quarter of
town. ’
‘Gracious heaven, Gerald! If your dear mama could not drag you to the altar, I
am hardly likely to succeed. The Wastrel—as we call him—cannot play when he's
sober; hands too shaky. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. He
brought home a few waverers to talk to them where they had no chance of
getting away. The walls
were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of
hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own
audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place
of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid
across joint-stools. He was now at the entrance of the chapel, and striking the door over which he
had previously climbed a violent blow with the bar, it flew open. ”
“I began to be afraid you might not come at all. The latter formed by far
the most knavish-looking and unprepossessing portion of the assemblage. "Eggs for me! You
mistake, child. ‘It is the life I know.
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