Retribution has a queer way
of acting sometimes. ”
“It isn’t nice going to prison. For a time she worried about that compulsory bath and cutaneous diseases. "No prize shall indushe me to enter dat horrid plashe again. There she would wander about in the kindly darkness. He was continually dramatizing the future, anticipating
the singular role he had elected to play. Taber. There was a great splash of blood upon it, her hand was all
wet and sticky. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit,
at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in
arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care,
with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her
safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary
readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. Here were imprisoned the fines; and,
"perhaps," adds the before-cited authority, "if he behaved himself, an outlawed
person might creep in among them. The sing-song girl rose and meekly pattered out of the office into the
night. "
Taking Jack into a shed behind the workshop the smith in a short time freed him
from his fetters. I have it
on my conscience that I offended you—”
“Offended me when?”
“I’ve been haunted by the memory of you. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account.
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