"
Amazed at the boy's assurance, Wood left off boxing his ears for a moment, and,
looking at him steadfastly, said in a grave tone, "Jack, Jack, you'll come to be
hanged!"
"Better be hanged than hen-pecked," retorted the lad with a malicious grin. All that confidence, born of irony, disappeared; and fear laid
hold of him. It is queer how ideas pop into one's head. Oh, to face facts! Gods! what a world it might be if people
faced facts! Understanding! Understanding! There is no other salvation. "
Again Ruth nodded. "Leave me, Sir; I insist. Michelle stood perplexed. 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. Lucy had been ignoring her, not purposefully, but
noticeably. This isn't your island, child; it's the great world.
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