The Closing Scene
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EPOCH THE FIRST. ’
‘What?’ uttered Gerald, startled. ’
Kimble’s widening gaze told its own tale, but still he kept his fingers on the
handle of the door. He has a way of sitting on people. I could not hear his heart beat. He
cherished her. She seemed to assume that it must
certainly be something she had said. But his own situation was too perilous to admit of his
rendering any assistance to the ill-fated waterman. Her lover, Darrell, has embarked upon the Thames, where, if
he's not capsized by the squall, (for it's blowing like the devil,) he stands a good
chance of getting his throat cut by his pursuers—ha! ha! I tracked 'em to the
banks of the river, and should have followed to see it out, if the watermen hadn't
refused to take me. "
"Jacobite!" echoed Mrs. “It hasn’t GOT a throat!”
Part 7
One day the idea of self-sacrifice came into her head, and she made, she
thought, some important moral discoveries. “No, no, no. Muttering something to
himself, he appeared to be telling upon his fingers the advantages and
disadvantages of some scheme he had in contemplation. “It seems so unfair,” she said, “to take all you offer me and give so little in
return.
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