’ ‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to say. A cat came and rubbed herself against him as he entered the house, and seemed by her mewing to ask him for food. . " "Didn't the natives have a name for you?" She blushed. But his astonishment would have been great indeed had he known that not even her father had ever caressed her, either with lips or with hands. Here Jack Sheppard was unable to repress an exclamation of astonishment. He did not pocket it, but sat hefting it lightly from hand to hand, watching the girl thoughtfully. She was in excellent spirits, and it was not until she had taken off her hat, and was considering the question of dinner or no dinner, that she remembered that another day had passed, and she was not a whit nearer being able to pay her tomorrow’s bill. And, with a glance of malignant exultation, he quitted the vault, and locked the door. The walls are too high, and the windows too stoutly barricaded in this quarter, to admit such a supposition. ‘You knew her well, Miss Mary?’ Mrs Ibstock turned at the window. She was a little paler than when she had come to London, a little paler and a little thinner.
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