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‘That rascally knave sent you to become a French nun?’ Looking positively terrified, the girl nodded dumbly. All through that brief but measureless space of time during which wonder kept him silent, as fear did her, she cowered there, a limp helpless object. 70 <9> A MARRIAGE, PART II She dreamt of the inn they had stopped at after her suicide attempt, the flea-ridden hostel her husband had angrily toted her to after the incident at the country house. " "How did he take it?" "He did not seem to care. No matter. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. " CHAPTER XX To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting out the old world. "Kidnapped, and sent to France by one uncle, it was my lot to fall into the hands of another,—my father's own brother, the Marshal Gaucher de Chatillon; to whom, and to the Cardinal Dubois, I owed all my good fortune. “I have stood it for a month, Anna,” he exclaimed. Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for me and set down every stay and brace and sail—square-rigger, schooner, and sloop. ‘And I don’t mind telling you it goes agin’ the grain with me to let you go free and all, missie. Happy Thanksgiving.
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