What the devil is
the matter, Dunster?”
“I beg your pardon, sir,” the man answered, “there is a lady here to see you. His hand went with an almost instinctive
inquiry to his jawbone again. ToC
Early in the morning of Thursday, the 15th of October, 1724, the door of the
Castle was opened by Austin, who, with a look of unusual importance,
announced to the prisoner that four gentlemen were shortly coming up with the
governor to see him,—"four such gentlemen," he added, in a tone meant to
impress his auditor with a due sense of the honour intended him, "as you don't
meet every day. Yet you
can look Cheveney in the face and declare that you do not know him. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. A chill ran through
his frame, and, grasping the heavy weapon with which chance had provided him,
prepared to strike down the first person who should enter the cell. It is she that I must see. To tell Ruth anything, it would be necessary to tell her
everything; and I cannot and you must not. She always dawdled, so it was easy. "
"I tell 'ee what, saltwater," said Ben, "I'll lay you my fare—and that'll be two
shillin'—I'm back in an hour. ’
‘Ah, that explains your surprise. On
this side a flight of wooden steps, protected by a hand-rail, led to a door opening
upon the summit of the prison. More strange stories were told of
it than of any other house in London.
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