’
‘And who, may I ask, is Dorothée?’ asked Gerald. It filled his thoughts for the rest of the day, and became an
obsession. "
"Save yourself, Jack!" shouted Thames, sinking beneath the superior weight and
strength of his opponent; "leave me to my fate!"
"Never," replied Jack, hurrying towards him. Man or
woman. She would come back and write letters,
carefully planned and written letters, or read some book she had fetched from
Mudie’s—she had invested a half-guinea with Mudie’s—or sit over her fire and
think. Manning relinquished his cup, and looked meaningly at Ann Veronica. He was keen to get to work, but the inspiration would not come. In a fit of despondency, superinduced
by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered,
after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle
—such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by
the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which
were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily
enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely
abandoned. ”
“But what have I done?”
“Elope! Go off in this way. Its architecture was richly ornamental, and resembled the style of a
triumphal entrance to a capital, rather than a dungeon having battlements and
hexagonal towers, and being adorned on the western side with a triple range of
pilasters of the Tuscan order, amid the intercolumniations of which were niches
embellished with statues. One little minute with soap and water, voilà
tout. The hangman is always an object of
peculiar detestation to the mob, a tremendous hooting hailed his appearance, and
both staves and swords were required to preserve order. That is what they
think we are for!”
“We’re beasts,” said Teddy. "I
will be there at the time.
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