The big gray spaces of London, the shop-lit, greasy, shining streets, had
become very remote; the biological laboratory with its work and emotions, the
meetings and discussions, the rides in hansoms with Ramage, were like things in
a book read and closed. There was the cottage she had
inhabited for so many years,—in those fields she had rambled,—at that church
she had prayed. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice,
your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me
strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to
perpetrate the outrage I've just described. He it was
who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the
sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their
booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows. ’
‘Oh yes, or walked through the walls, I dare say. "I shall want
nothing more. I didn’t betray you, I swear I didn’t. “Are you sick, Michelle? Maybe you should have
stayed home. Why not? Were not his own sentiments inclined in favour of the
patient? But fifty gold was fifty gold. What’s that?”
They both stood listening.
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