She propped a pillow against his padded headboard
and sat herself into a stiff upright position, legs expertly
crossed. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. Sebastian began to maintain a harem. "We'll give them the slip yet, and hang
that butcherly thief-taker upon his own gibbet. Once a week, every
Saturday, they had a little gathering from nine till the small hours, just talk and
perhaps reading aloud and fruitarian refreshments—chestnut sandwiches
buttered with nut tose, and so forth—and lemonade and unfermented wine; and
to one of these symposia Miss Miniver after a good deal of preliminary
solicitude, conducted Ann Veronica. With one or two exceptions, there were no pews;
and, as the intercourse with London was then but slight, the seats were occupied
almost exclusively by the villagers.
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