Just as he reached them, the Comte de St Erme drew Valade a little apart and began to converse with him in rapid French. Lucy knocked again. “You see,” he said, “you are like an inaccessible gold-mine in all this sort of matter. . " "Help me, Jack!" shouted Thames, "or I shan't be able to keep the villain down. Any one less courageous than himself would have abandoned the attempt from a conviction of its utter hopelessness; but, though it might for a moment damp his ardour, it could not deter him. Lucia had never been so happy, so content. But most of all, I wanted to love. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police, but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man? Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift? But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah, but that had been after he had played for her. That did not sound like the name the young man had offered in the tower of the water-clock.
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