She
had fled back to Florence quite intent on slitting the new
bride’s throat. It was a dismal and depressing sight to see a great city thus suddenly
overthrown; and the carpenter was deeply moved by the spectacle. ”
Sir John looked at her sideways. In the corner of the room were two
hockey-sticks and a tennis-racket, and upon the walls Ann Veronica, by means of
autotypes, had indicated her proclivities in art. If you know
her for the vicious, scheming wretch that she is, why in God’s name—?’
‘She’s not a vicious, scheming wretch,’ Gerald said calmly. . “That
beast of a fellow is certain to be hanging about. "I know the house well; by the same token
that it's a flash crib. I dare say anything seemed better to her
than the nun’s habit she had been obliged to use. He well knows that but two lives—those of
Thames Darrell and Sir Rowland Trenchard,—stand between you and the vast
possessions of the family. “Is that not rather a profitless speculation, my friend?”
He seemed deaf to her interruption. But it is that I have a very bad temper, you
understand. He’s dead. Her lover, Darrell, has embarked upon the Thames, where, if
he's not capsized by the squall, (for it's blowing like the devil,) he stands a good
chance of getting his throat cut by his pursuers—ha! ha! I tracked 'em to the
banks of the river, and should have followed to see it out, if the watermen hadn't
refused to take me.
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