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"By Jack Sheppard!" exclaimed the thief-taker. ” She
patted his arm and wiped her tears away. "Go—go!"
"I see what you mean," rejoined Blueskin, tossing a large case-knife, which he
took from his pocket, in the air, and catching it dexterously by the haft as it fell;
"you owe Jonathan a grudge;—so do I. “But why, Lucy? Who is it
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that you are trying to hide from? John?”
Lucy closed her eyes in earnest. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was
at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things
as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry
thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?”
She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that
desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. The elastic spirits of youth resumed their sway; and,
before the coach stopped, his tears had ceased to flow. ’
‘Melusine, did you say?’ Mrs Sindlesham sighed.
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