”
“No doubt. Not a word was uttered for some time, nor any sound heard except the stilled
sobs of the unfortunate mother. "Old Van told me if he grew up he would be hanged. But Gerald kept to a casual note. Her complexion was wan and faded,
except where it was tinged by a slight hectic flush, that made the want of colour
more palpable; her eyes were large and black, but heavy and lustreless; her
cheeks sunken; her frame emaciated; her dark hair thickly scattered with gray. To be sure," he added, lowering his tone, "they wos little 'uns, and
one on 'em was smothered—ough! ough!—how this cough chokes me!"
Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself,
unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole,
upon a bench near him. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. She may afford us some necessary information. They had been playing tennis, with
his manifest intention looming over her. There was nothing on her
face to hint of the misery that brimmed her heart this morning.
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