‘In love? I? Don’t be ridiculous. ‘Gérard—’
‘What now?’ he asked, rife with suspicion. "Never—never!"
The words were scarcely pronounced, when the door was violently thrown open,
and two men appeared at it. “Lucy, this isn’t funny anymore. But perhaps you don't know; there was nothing in the pockets. She could not go to him with a preachment against strong drink; she knew from
experience that such a plan would be wasted effort. And I heard ‘Alcide’ sing, and that little dance she did. Listening at one of the doors leading to the Master Debtors' side, he heard a loud
voice chanting a Bacchanalian melody, and the boisterous laughter that
accompanied the song, convinced him that no suspicion was entertained in this
quarter. One reason,
perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in
the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was
favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent.
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