"Devil!" cried the widow, catching his arm, and gazing with frantic eagerness in
his face, "how many years will you give my son before you execute your terrible
threat?"
"NINE!" answered Jonathan sternly. ”
He stepped back as though he had received a blow. "I'm sure
little Jack has but one friend beside myself, in the world, and that's more than I
would have ventured to say for him yesterday. . "
"And Thames Darrell would do anything for you, Jack," replied a blithe voice. Oh, Mr Jarvis paid no mind,’ she added hastily, as if
expecting disapproval. She had decided that she would spend the next morning
answering advertisements in the papers that abounded in the writing-room; and
so, after half an hour’s perusal of back numbers of the Sketch in the drawingroom, she had gone to bed. That's a most damnable lie; and
when she finds out, 'tis then she will not forgive. What a mercy that the blow aimed at her by the ruffian,
Wild, though it brought her to the brink of the grave, should have restored her to
reason! Ah! she stirs. But it was her proof. She remained for some seconds crouching at the fender, poker in hand. ’
‘Yes, she duped me finely,’ agreed Gerald.
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