This became
very interesting. "My little fancy man's quite as fond of me
as of you, Bess. ‘Have no fear,’ he uttered soothingly, reaching out to pat her free hand. "
"Oh!" Ruth laughed softly. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. “My dear,” she said, when she could get her breath, “you must come home at
once. “Men’s waists are neither here nor there;
A man scores always, everywhere. Then she sat down—uninvited—
and looked from one to the other curiously. By
your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard's will, you are aware,—and, therefore, I
need not repeat it, except for the special purpose I have in view,—you are aware,
I say, that, by this will, in case your sister Aliva, died without issue, or, on the
death of such issue, the property reverts to Constance and her issue. The Plague raced through the city and the Palazzo,
consuming it like fire. There was only one idea in his head now—to batter and bruise and crush
this weakling, then cast him at the feet of his love-lorn wife. Great sport, eh? To haul them back from the ragged edge. He hadn't patrolled old Pell Street as a plain clothes man without
getting a glimmer of the ancient truth that East is East and West is West. ‘For instance, why have you reverted to your nun’s habit for
this particular adventure?’
‘That is easy. I
find you an impenetrable enigma.
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