The assemblage was
for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its
aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was
exhibited. This time there wasn't any doubt. Luckily, Sir James was so much
engrossed by his own task, that both the remark and gesture escaped him. Everything was blurred. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her
lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the
thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size,
and appeared almost to block up the window. ’
‘A life of ease?’ repeated Melusine. "
"Perhaps I read of it somewhere. “I wonder what happened. It had been his fevered imagination that had endued the garment with
some extraordinary value. He had seen the announcement of your
marriage in the papers, and he imagined that I simply wanted to remain unknown
because of your husband’s puritanism. What was his
astonishment to recognise in the few words they uttered the voices of Kneebone
and Winifred! The latter was apparently in great distress, and the former seemed
to be using his best efforts to relieve her anxiety. Raising the bowl in his right hand, Jack glanced towards the balcony,
in which the group of ladies were seated, and begged to drink their healths; he
then turned to Kneebone and the others, who extended their hands towards him,
and raised it to his lips.
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