Time wore on somewhat slowly with the
prisoner, who had to control his impatience in the best way he could; but as the
shades of evening were darkening, the door was unlocked, and Mr. ‘Oh, the Frenchie. She never touched the manuscript with pencil, but
jotted down her notes on slips of paper and left them where he might easily find
them. This girl was strong and
vital: how would she take it when she learned that she had cast her lot with a
fugitive from justice? For McClintock was certain that Spurlock was a hunted
man. I acted in plays, I studied philosophy,
mathematics, and science. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and
Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of
their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds,
their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the
flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself
fighting against. I’m ashamed
to confess it, but I didn’t want the charge of you—a too close reminder of my
own lost babe. For my part, I think those
shackles extremely becoming. She had not anticipated such a
response from her classmates, but knew to be drawing
them with her self-consciousness as if they were bees to
pollen. Wild, however, proved, on the evidence of his own
servants, that he was at the Old Bailey at the time; and Sir Rowland proved that
he was in Manchester. She had remained patently
unavailable to him.
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