He was officially in the nun’s employ, but Melusine had commandeered his services immediately on the discovery that he had conceived a passion for her. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. Who? Could it be Gerald? Quickly, she looked back at Gosse’s face, and found him frowning. “She told you that?” “Yes. “Yet it is my last evening, and I think —if you are sure that you would like to have me—that I will risk it. To witness this girl sewing on a loose button, flopping the coat about on her knees, tickled his ironic sense of humour; and laughter bubbled into his throat. "Far from, it, Sir. And, with a glance of malignant exultation, he quitted the vault, and locked the door. You've betrayed yourself, Thames. —The general who gives an order for wholesale carnage never sleeps a wink the less soundly for the midnight groans of his victims, and we should deride him as a coward if he did.
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