Then a light seemed to
break in upon him. But that
was soon put right, and she walked out into London with a peculiar exaltation of
mind, an exaltation that partook of panic and defiance, but was chiefly a sense of
vast unexampled release. "Well, well, we'll say no more about it," replied Wood; "and, by way of changing
the subject, let me advise you on no account to fly to strong waters for
consolation, Joan. The thought of the picture but added to her despondency. " Some innate sense of
balance told her that something was wrong with these tales. Monsieur
Charvill, he has not the means to choose different. ToC
Jonathan, meanwhile, having ascertained the parentage of the child from Wood,
proceeded to question him in an under tone, as to the probable motives of the
attempt upon its life; and, though he failed in obtaining any information on this
point, he had little difficulty in eliciting such particulars of the mysterious
transaction as have already been recounted. They thought that she was her own
mother. A chill ran through
his frame, and, grasping the heavy weapon with which chance had provided him,
prepared to strike down the first person who should enter the cell. Spurlock went, it would not be far enough. Thames returned no answer. All the
events of the previous day rushed to his recollection; and though he had been
unintentionally the cause of his mother's death, he reproached himself as
severely as if he had been her actual murderer. Last night Mr. ”
This made her even angrier, so she stopped speaking
to him for a week.
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