He shrugged and, to Gerald’s relief, made to
leave at last. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. Larry was able to retire. "
"So she was," replied the woollen-draper, helping himself to an enormous pinch
of snuff with the air of a man who does not dislike to be rallied about his
gallantry,—"so she was. The man was
dangerous. Squire and master. I love some one else. There was something about their
greeting and the tone of Annabel’s exclamation which puzzled her. "Our worthy friend was going to observe, Ma'am, that we never fail in our
devotion to the fair sex," said Mr. Kneebone's. “I got your note just in time,” he remarked. "May I be cursed," muttered Sheppard, as he slunk away with (as the woollendraper pleasantly observed) 'a couple of boxes in charge,' "if ever I try to be
honest again!"
"Take a little toasted cheese with the swig, Mr. He's the most daring and expert housebreaker that ever
used a crow-bar. Divers plans and figures were chalked
upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for
the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The
History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an
abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all
manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's
Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend
gentleman and the principal members of his flock.
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