After
all, it was what she had been praying for—and Annabel could not have known
her address. She could not see what occurred, though she guessed it; but she saw
Jonathan's devilish triumphing glance, and read in it,—"Your son has committed
a robbery—here—in these holy walls—he is mine—mine for ever!"
She uttered a loud scream, and fainted. She had worn a long skirt that morning, and a
roomier sweater that was slightly easier to handle than
Shari’s low cut numbers. ‘Of course the fellow has doubtless stayed put to wait for you,’ retorted Hilary. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. ”
She breathed an inner sigh of relief. The rascal
will be at work before the morning. Then the work is optional; they go on their own. Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. It is just how things happen to be. "The poor things!"
The manager laughed. However, to cut a long matter short, my proposal's this:
—I've taken a fancy to your bantling, and, as I've no son of my own, if it meets
with your concurrence and that of Mrs.
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