"Hear the letter," said Ireton, breaking the seal. “I believe so. On their return, the jailers raised up Jonathan, who was weltering in his blood,
and who appeared to be dying. You told me he was going back to Newgate after
supper, so I mayn't have another opportunity. She roves the blue fields of the North, with
the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost—
mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships
and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her
and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange
words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume
of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet
trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of
danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires
and her mouth full of pearls!
"With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. It consisted of a full-dress coat of
brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise
richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was
termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample
as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. ’ But I
made sure it was you. Giles!
"Devil seize the woman!" growled the singer, as he brought his ditty to a close;
"will nothing tempt her out? Widow Sheppard, I say," he added, rising, "don't be
afraid. I couldn't accept anything from you. She turned her eyes to him again, and saw her late friend and pleasant and
trusted companion, who had seen fit suddenly to change into a lover, babbling
interesting inacceptable things.
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