They had both been
unsuccessful. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. But one changes the style of one's clothes yearly. Taking his way along East
Smithfield, mounting Little Tower-hill, and threading the Minories and
Hounsditch, he arrived without accident or molestation, at Moorfields. The dizziness made the trees sickening, the smell
of Michelle’s perfume soapy and revolting. ‘How did you guess?’
‘I guessed as soon as you said this was your house. "
Aware apparently in some degree, of the mistake she had committed, the poor
maniac sprang towards him with frantic violence, and planted her long nails in
his cheek. ’
Melusine gasped. " It was
only a shade better than the Stone Hold. ”
“What is there to be feared?” he asked her quietly. Are you
my accuser?"
"I am," replied Wild; "have you anything to allege to the contrary?"
"Only this," returned Thames: "that the charge is false, and malicious, and that
you know it to be so. "
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