Wood then took to his heels, and never once looked behind him till he
reached his own dwelling in Wych Street. ”
Hill staggered to his feet and drew a folded paper from his pocket. When the prisoner was brought
into this room, he was again questioned; but, continuing contumacious,
preparations were made for inflicting the torture. Her hands wove
through his black hair, luxuriating in its thickness. She made herself serenely unaware of his existence, though it may be it
was his presence that sent her by the field detour instead of by the direct path up
the Avenue. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor
the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand
during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score
natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of
warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from
barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious
enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. "It is open," replied the lady, rushing towards it, and springing through the outlet. "Don't leave him, if you're at all fearful, my dear," replied Wood, receiving the
little burthen with a laugh. He flung Ruth aside, careless whether she fell or
not. "Certain. Montague Hill. "
"You shall have all I have about me," replied Darrell. \"Cathy says she'll let me stay out past midnight. It was explosive
and gratifying. And yet, on the very
site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the
felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of
his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two centuries ago, stood the princely
residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart
was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour.
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