She had only to get through this, to solace Manning as much as she could, to put such clumsy plasterings on his wounds as were possible, and then, anyhow, she would be free—free to put her fate to the test. She had finally managed to start breaking him down. ‘And, if this was not enough,’ went on the lady furiously, ‘you dare to say I am French. I just thought perhaps a different boy was in store for you. I step on my neighbour's feet, return and apologize because my acquired conscience orders me to do so; whereas you might pass on without caring if your neighbour hopped about on one foot. Anyhow he confessed that he was a fraud. Boys, at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior. The ball passed over his head, and lodged in the ceiling.
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