Having ascertained that a vessel
sails for France from the river at daybreak to-morrow morning, I have secured a
passage in her, and have already had the few effects I possess, conveyed on
board. Ah, if I had written that!"
"Don't you want to live?"
"I don't know; I really don't know. She was a small blonde, not handsome, but with a flair for fashion
demonstrated by her elegant chemise gown in the very latest Canterbury muslin,
with its low décolletage barely concealed under a fine lawn handkerchief set
about her shoulders, and decorated with a mauve satin sash at the waist. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. Won’t
you let me—can’t I be of any assistance?”
He was obviously in earnest. "
"Oh, that!" she said, with a deprecating gesture. “Yeah, but I have two brothers.
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