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"I tell e'e what, John Dump," said the other fellow, who had hitherto preserved
silence, "I don't know whether you talkin' o' Jack Sheppard has put him into my
head or not; but I once had him pointed out to me, and if that were him as I seed
then, he's just now ridden past us, and put up at the Six Bells. ‘Do
you know, Mademoiselle Charvill, you are a thought too clever for your own
good. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. “I do not suppose he will be home till late. ’
He closed the panel and came slowly out of the little dressing-room, Roding at
his heels. She became exceptionally considerate and affectionate with her
father and aunt, and more and more concerned about the coming catastrophe that
she was about to precipitate upon them. She studied the face and tried to visualize
the body, clothed in the dress which had created the spinsters' astonishment. Since the accession of George the First to the throne in the
preceding year, every effort had been made by the partisans of the Stuarts to
shake the credit of the existing government, and to gain supporters to their cause. There were neither texts nor
rubbish on the walls, but only a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel
engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks. Their doors stood open, and placards with big letters indicated the
section assigned to each. She turned off the light and approached the window.
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