Just dreamed—and ran away
even from my dreams. “I confess it. Why do you not go away?’
‘Yes, do go away,’ begged Gerald. Only old
librarians and Shirley Temples say that. The Master of the Mint was accompanied by another gentleman almost as portly
as himself, and quite as deliberate in his movements. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her
complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably,
by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes
which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely
more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. ”
“As long as you remain under my roof—” he began, and paused. ‘It is nothing. She packed her
backpack with a change of clothes, some rags, and her old
length of piano wire. ’
A peal of laughter came from the girl. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered.
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