She had only to get through this, to solace Manning as much as she
could, to put such clumsy plasterings on his wounds as were possible, and then,
anyhow, she would be free—free to put her fate to the test. Hang the
wench! Roding was right. In
consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security
afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at
the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the
metropolis. Frankly, it is the funniest thing which has ever happened to me in
my life. The little matter of an accent may be misleading, I grant you, but
—’
He was interrupted, and with impatience. ’
‘You mean Valade? Don’t be downhearted. On beholding the intruders, his fears
changed to exultation, and he uttered a roar of satisfaction as he glared at them,
which could only be likened to the cry of some savage denizen of the plains. There were white men with
families, a fine mission-house, and a club-house for cards and billiards. A pretty piece. He trembled, not from any superstitious dread, but from an
undefined sense of approaching danger. “I’ve
tried to make words tell it. ”
Part 9
She was sitting brooding over her fire about ten o’clock that night when a
sealed and registered envelope was brought up to her.
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