"That'll teach you to keep a civil tongue in your head for the future," observed
Thames, as he helped Jack to his feet. ‘I thought—I thought I saw my—my
husband. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. Much to her annoyance, therefore, Winifred was left alone with the woollendraper, who following up a maxim of his own, "that nothing was gained by too
much bashfulness," determined to profit by the opportunity. Whoever chose to
incur the risk of so doing might enter the Mint at any hour; but no one was
suffered to depart without giving a satisfactory account of himself, or producing
a pass from the Master. Passing at a glance over the whole of the intervening period; leaving in the
words of the poet,
—The growth untried
Of that wide gap—
we shall resume our narrative at the beginning of June, 1715. “Do you remember the mountains? Do you remember how we loved one
another? How intensely we loved one another! Do you remember the light on
things and the glory of things? I’m greedy, I’m greedy! I want children like the
mountains and life like the sky. We all have to kow-tow to that. "
"Be handy, then," rejoined Terence, "or, I'll lose my share of the smart money. Hill again—alive. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which
overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who
traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible
promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes
the aspect of virtue. “That’s HIM,” said Ann Veronica,
in sound, idiomatic English. Something tells me I am rushing on greater danger. Lucy sized up the girl.
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