Thames sprang to his feet, and half drew his sword, while Wood, removing his spectacles to assure himself that his eyes did not deceive him, exclaimed in a tone and with a look that betrayed the extremity of surprise—"Jack Sheppard!" "Jack Sheppard!" echoed the maid. "If we take him, I don't mind giving you a share—say a fourth—provided you lend a helping hand. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never take in promiscuous travellers. Young and old were dressed in their gayest apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance, from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place. "I was afraid it would be so. ” “And they won’t let us make plans for ourselves. ” Ann Veronica listened with her eyes on the fire. She went to a writing-desk and made some memoranda on a sheet of note-paper, and then remembered that she had no address as yet to which letters could be sent. When she came to herself, she found that her brother had quitted the room, leaving her to the care of a female attendant. “Oh, Ann Veronica!” he cried, “I cannot let you go like this! You don’t understand. 277 “I was beginning to think that I would never see you again, Lucy. No tricks would serve. So far as the eye could reach, the white level road, with its fringe of elm-trees, was empty. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations.
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