Would I could purchase his
apathy as easily as I can procure his assistance. ’
‘I beg your pardon?’ said Miss Froxfield frostily. After debating with himself whether he should further seek an interview, which,
though, now in his power, was so sedulously shunned by the other party, he
decided in the negative; and contenting himself with writing upon a slip of paper
the hasty words,—"You are known by the villagers,—be upon your guard,"—he
gave it to the ostler, with instructions to deliver it instantly to the owner of the
horse he pointed out, and pursued his course. Anything that drew attention to her must be avoided. Perhaps she had found this
new thing in life, the thing wonderful. “Is that so? Who says?” He demanded, his eyebrows
arching as he looked at her with puerile glee. The class laughed, a few putting their hands to their
foreheads in a military salute to mock her. Advancing towards the Master, and claiming an audience, which was instantly
granted, Jonathan, without much circumlocution, related the sum of the strange
story he had just learnt from Wood, omitting nothing except a few trifling
particulars, which he thought it politic to keep back; and, with this view, he said
not a word of there being any probability of capturing the fugitive, but, on the
contrary, roundly asserted that his informant had witnessed that person's escape. ”
Ann Veronica made no answer.
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