Looking at this girl, a sense of failure
swept over him. The trees were
graceful and brown, arching and fanning their golden
leaves as if to shower with coins the pink-gold sky. He felt no pain from this
cowardly kick. He held her hand in his, cupped together like a pair
of shells for the rest of the hour. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. How
would he act when he learned that it had vanished?
She gathered up the manuscripts and restored them to the envelope. The recollection was too painful, and he burst into an agony of
tears. ’
They moved to the door, while the lady shrugged, and then seated herself,
glancing from the window into the street below, and then turning again to watch
them in their huddle at the other side of the library. Wood turned over to obtain a
more comfortable position. Only, he'll be an
interesting specimen for me to observe. He took a
handful of almonds and raisins that she held out to him—for both these young
people had given up the practice of going out for luncheon—and kept her hand
for a moment to kiss her finger-tips. Sheppard, after a brief pause, during which she appeared
overcome by her feelings,—she said, gently disengaging herself from the young
girl's embrace, and speaking in a firm voice, "you must dissuade your father
from this step. But he had
now lost the precise spot; and thinking he had examined the drain, turned his
attention to another quarter. Sheppard, sinking
backwards upon the pallet.
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