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The thief-taker's residence was a large dismal-looking, habitation, separated
from the street by a flagged court-yard, and defended from general approach by
an iron railing. He was engaged in detesting Manning and himself in
almost equal measure. get in. “Don’t be childish, Annabel. “I think,” he said, “that you have found the real home of the lotus-eaters. Get you gone. Before Wood had time to inquire into the cause of this sound, his attention was
diverted by a man, who rushed past the entry with the swiftness of desperation. Other, and more serious impositions, inasmuch as they affected
a poorer class of persons, were practised by the underlings of the jail. I came to the Beck’s house. ’
‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who
was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving
his first commission at sixteen. “You silly fool,” he said. Grace-church Street was entirely
deserted, except by a few stragglers, whose curiosity got the better of their fears;
or who, like the carpenter, were compelled to proceed along it. But Bess could
scarcely summon resolution enough to hazard the experiment; and it was only on
Jack's urgent intreaties, and even threats, that she could be prevailed on to trust
herself to the frail tenure of the rope he had prepared. All that I regret are the wasted
years, and I am not sure that I regret them. ’
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Everett, General Lord Charvill, master of a barony stretching over a wide estate
that encroached on the hundreds of Witham, Thurstable and Dengy, stood before
his own fireplace, glaring at his visitors from under bushy white brows from a
head held necessarily low above a back painfully bent by rheumatism.
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