"Thames would
let himself in; and Jack generally finds an entrance through the backdoor or the
shop-window, when he has been out at untimely hours. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the
narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. The joke of it is that he’s married to her now, and cuts me dead. Then making a pretence of stooping to rearrange her flowing train, she
glanced at Anna, and half stopped in her progress down the room. “I believe she’s dressing up-stairs—now. Rattles were sprung; lanterns lighted,
and hoisted at the end of poles; windows thrown open; doors unbarred; and, as if
by magic, the street was instantaneously filled with a crowd of persons of both
sexes, armed with such weapons as came most readily to hand, and dressed in
such garments as could be most easily slipped on. He could
not permit her to remain in that position. Every care had been taken of it, as well as of himself, by the humane
inmates of the house in which he had sought shelter. He flew to the window, and would have passed his sword through
the thief-taker's body, if the latter had not quickly interposed the person of Mrs. ’
‘Like your father,’ Gerald put in deliberately. She let them
fall and sped to the companion, where she stood for a moment, the moonlight
giving her a celestial touch. Because she states
her case in a tangle, drags it through swamps of nonsense, it doesn’t alter the fact
that she is right. Gerald smiled and crooked his elbow. You informed Sir
Rowland that Thames Darrell was returned?"
"Exactly so," replied Quilt, "and he instantly decided upon returning to London
with me.
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