" But this difficulty was only overcome to be succeeded by one still greater. ” She was able to go straight to her room without delay, and she at once locked the door with a little sigh of relief. "If you loiter in this way, old Wood will catch us. " "It wouldn't surprise me if he did," remarked Griffin. The clever hostess having let fall that several distinguished guests from France would be present, the world had flocked to her doors to catch, like the gossip-hungry vultures they were, a glimpse of them. Lord Charvill’s sense of justice would not, however, allow him to repudiate his granddaughter, if indeed this female proved to be the infant lost to the family so many years ago. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. Her eyes glistened in the darkness—for light was only admitted through a small grated window—like flames, and, as she fixed them on him, their glances seemed to penetrate his very soul. If you knew anything about Canton ware, you were, as like as not, sorely tempted to stuff a teacup into your pocket. "Good bye!" cried Jack, as if taking leave of his mistresses, "to-morrow, at the same time. This formality irked her: she wanted to play a little, romp. "Under the table. “Why on earth did you TELL me?” he cried. The psychic vibration of him thickened the air of the room as if he were already inside. Glad to escape from the scene of recrimination that ensued between his adopted parents, Thames seized the earliest opportunity of retiring, and took his way to a small chamber in the upper part of the house, where he and Jack were accustomed to spend most of their leisure in the amusements, or pursuits, proper to their years.
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