“You had only to
ask——”
“Do you think,” Anna interrupted, with a note of passion trembling also in her
tone, “that I would have taken alms from Sir John, the man to whom I had lied
for your sake. In
the upper hall he paused to listen. ‘I think,’ he said pleasantly, ‘that it would be as well if you, Hilary, were to go
and fetch the troops. She had not nursed Leonardo for weeks for nothing. What the devil is
the matter, Dunster?”
“I beg your pardon, sir,” the man answered, “there is a lady here to see you. The music confused and distracted her, and made
her struggle against a feeling of intoxication. The darkness prevented the carpenter from discerning the features or figure of
the stranger; and the ceaseless din precluded the possibility of holding any
communication by words with him. And if one were to love some
one very much, it’s just so that one would be blindest, just when one wanted
most to see. And I have seen work by his pupils myself that
struck me as being—well, next door to shameful. Over the chimney-piece was pasted a handbill, purporting to be "The last Dying
Speech and Confession of TOM SHEPPARD, the Notorious Housebreaker, who
suffered at Tyburn on the 25th of February, 1703.
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