A long and secret conference then
took place between the thief-taker and his myrmidons, after which they were
severally dismissed. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. It runs about gayly, it
romps, it is bright and pretty, it has enormous quantities of soft hair and more
power of expressing affection than its brothers. While the cloth was laid, the host and Thames descended to
the cellar, whence they returned, laden with a number of flasks of the same form,
and apparently destined to the same use as those depicted in Hogarth's delectable
print—the Modern Midnight Conversation. He had
just passed through a terrific physical test. ”
“Were you sexually abused? Was it a miscarriage?”
“No. . Lucy’s cool. He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of
correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was
concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung—and kept on
flinging—such considerations to the wind. The oaken beam, nine inches in
thickness, was now the sole but most formidable obstacle to his flight.
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