She felt a storm of emotion surging up within her. He never said hello, as if it had become a personal taboo for him. A full-curled wig descended half-way down his back and shoulders; a neckcloth of "right Mechlin" was twisted round his throat so tightly as almost to deprive him of breath, and threaten him with apoplexy; he had lace, also, at his wrists and bosom; gold clocks to his hose, and red heels to his shoes. "Oho!" he said. No wonder that Trenchard, as he gazed at this fearful being, should have some misgivings cross him. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. And she had not dressed herself in this habit of a blue so much like the sky just for his sake, no matter that Lucy had said how much this colour suited with her eyes. “You don’t want to go?” “No. It is nothing at all for you to worry about. ” “Until some one takes pity on me and marries me?” He raised his eyebrows in mild appeal. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile. ’ ‘Yes, indeed,’ agreed Lucilla enthusiastically. Mac's. Wood, who had been absent on business during the greater part of the day, returned (perhaps not altogether undesignedly) at an earlier hour than was expected, to his dwelling in Wych Street, Drury Lane; and was about to enter his workshop, when, not hearing any sound of labour issue from within, he began to suspect that an apprentice, of whose habits of industry he entertained some doubt, was neglecting his employment. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent.
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