"
"Perhaps not," replied Jack, carelessly. ’
Roding started. "Where are the packets committed to your
charge by Sir Rowland Trenchard?"
"The packets!" exclaimed Kneebone, in alarm. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. He won’t have menservants inside the house, and his collection of carriages
is only fit for a museum—where most of his friends ought to be, by-the-bye. She
tucked her stick under her arm and re-read Manning’s letter. Will you please—Not now, or I
must go. "
But the caution came too late. "But why didn't you make yourself known at once?"
"I'd forgotten the office you hold in the Mint, Baptist," replied Rowland. ’
‘Can’t say as I’m sorry to hear you say that, missie,’ confessed the sergeant,
on a relieved note, as he locked the front door of the mansion and pocketed the
key. Kneebone," she added,
drawing up her magnificent figure to its full height, and making the heavy
cudgel whistle through the air, "look to yourself. Manning loomed up ever and again into her world, full of a
futile solicitude, and almost always declaring she was splendid, splendid, and
wishing he could talk things out with her.
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