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"You might have added 'then'," said Miss Spurlock, drily. “He was alive at four o’clock this afternoon,” she answered, “but the doctors
give little hope of his recovery. Pitt endeavoured to dissuade him from
attending in person, representing the great risk he would incur from the mob,
which was certain to be assembled. Wood, Sir," he added, with
much emotion, "is one of the best of men, and would be the happiest, were it not
that—" and he hesitated. “The fellow seems to
know your name, Miss Pellissier, and that you have lived in Paris. On examining his pockets, he found about twenty guineas in gold, and some
silver. Every one took him for the millionaire, and he had lost his head about
me. Jack tried it, and found it locked. At this point Lucy, in an effort perhaps—foolhardy, in Gerald’s opinion—to
pour oil on troubled waters, rose swiftly to her feet and came towards the old
man, her hand held out. “It’s a
matter of feeling with me. Carefully sustaining the child which, even in that terrible extremity, he
had not the heart to abandon, he fell upon his knees, and, guiding himself with
his right hand, crept slowly on.
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