"No," replied Jonathan, "I'll not take you at your word, as regards the latter
proposition. ToC
The day appointed for the execution was now close at hand, and the prisoner,
who seemed to have abandoned all hopes of escape, turned his thoughts entirely
from worldly considerations. He had not noticed the girl particularly when she offered the sandwiches; but in
this moment he found her beautiful. "I beg your pardon," he cried; "but really—ha! ha!—you must excuse me!—that
is so uncommonly diverting—ha! ha! Do let me hear it again?—ha! ha! ha!"
"Upon my word," rejoined Wood, "you seem vastly entertained by my
misfortunes. "
"I say, Kneebone," rejoined Blueskin, as he washed down an immense mouthful
with another bumper, "do you recollect how nearly Mr. —Give me the letters, my love," she added aloud, and in her
most winning accents; "they're some wicked forgeries. After a while one began
to talk. Nevertheless though nearly six feet high, and
correspondingly proportioned, she was a model of symmetry, and boasted, with
the frame of a Thalestris or a Trulla, the regular lineaments of the Medicean
Venus. "I'm sure he won't attempt to prevent me," rejoined Thames. He was ruffled, and his ears were red, no
doubt from some adjacent controversy.
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