”
She replied with a rehearsed answer, “I was told that
my real mother died the day I was born. ‘Pardon, milor’,’ said Valade, ‘but Monsieur Charvill, he was not at fault. “There is some mystery about you both,” he exclaimed, with sudden earnestness. “What did it matter?” she cried. My motive in coming hither is to serve you, and save your life. His literary
instincts began to stir. "
So saying, he re-entered the house, closed the door, and, followed by the widow,
proceeded to the fire-place, where a handful of chips, apparently just lighted,
crackled within the rusty grate. He
uttered her name and his excitement grew when he did
not feel a bra. She could learn nothing of her son, and only
obtained one solitary piece of information, which added to, rather than alleviated
her misery,—namely, that Jonathan Wild had paid a secret visit to the Cross
Shovels. But the young man with the orange tie remained in his place, disputing
whether the body had not something or other which he called its legitimate
claims. Sections and pages had been pasted together, and all through both
Testaments a word had been blotted out. ”
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Typesetting and editing of the original book from which this e-text has been
transcribed was inconsistent.
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