” Anna was not late, but her heart sank within her when she entered the drawingroom. It had been brighter than the rest, for dawn light had come in through high unshuttered casements above the bookshelves. “How ridiculous! Fancy you with all that money! For heaven’s sake, though, do not go about playing the Don Quixote like this. She heard it open, but as she felt unable to look round in a careless manner she pretended not to hear it. She was posing before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. It feels like too much gold-dust clutched in one’s hand. Seeing provisions in the window, Jack ventured in and bought a loaf. You shall have your reward. He speaks English. She said she hoped she had not distressed him by the course she had felt obliged to take, and he told her not to be a fool. "It is Jack Sheppard, the noted housebreaker," cried Jonathan, at the top of his sonorous voice. Her usual dignified reserve had availed her nothing. Walpole's order to that effect—but not before. Sheppard was no sooner alone than she fell upon her knees by the side of the couch, and poured forth her heart in prayer. The same old lines and verses, over and over, until there had come times when shrieking would have relieved her.
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