She seemed
smitten with a paroxysm of fear. With great difficulty, Wood forced a path through the ruins. All houses of means had not only a maid but
usually a whole staff of servants. "What's that?" ejaculated the ruffian, glancing uneasily towards the window. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. Most
unsatisfactory. Jack had well-nigh fallen too. Some trustworthy
Chinaman to watch, for a small bribe, while he, James Boyle O'Higgins, enjoyed
himself in Hong-Kong, seeing the spring races, the boxing matches, and
hobnobbing with Yankee sailors. We have seen pitted cheeks, which we would not
exchange for dimples and a satin skin. “You, anyhow, don’t deserve
it,” he said. ‘Pardon, milor’,’ said Valade, ‘but Monsieur Charvill, he was not at fault. I expect you had been
snubbing him terribly. They broke open the entrance
into Jonathan's store-room—plundered it of everything valuable—ransacked
every closet, drawer, and secret hiding-place, and stripped them of their contents. "
"It's all over with him by this time, master," replied Ben, turning the head of his
boat, and rowing swiftly towards the scene of strife; "but d—n him, he was the
chap as hit poor Bill Thomson just now, and I don't much care if he should be
food for fishes. Spurlock was no longer a man before
this instinct; he was a child in trouble.
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