"Very well," said Rachel, with a toss of her pretty head, "very well. He had certain orders from which on no account was he to deviate. In the retrospect she was amazed to think how things had gone to pieces, for at the outset she had been quite prepared to go home again upon terms. ' Jack Sheppard's library consisted of a few ragged and well-thumbed volumes abstracted from the tremendous chronicles bequeathed to the world by those Froissarts and Holinsheds of crime —the Ordinaries of Newgate. Ever since the young police officer had arrived on her doorstep the clock had started ticking faster. ” She batted his arms and slapped him, angrily twisting from his grasp. Trifle useful?" he added, slipping a few gold pieces into Jack's hand. " There was a pause. She was perplexed by this, and stood for some seconds in the empty street hesitating, until the appearance of another circumspect woman under the street lamp at the corner reassured her. Something, then, to appease the wrath of God; something to blunt this persistent agony.
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