—Providence, I mean—HAS arranged it so that men will keep you, more or less. Notwithstanding the heat of the season,—which was not, however, found particularly inconvenient in this subterranean region,—a large heaped-up fire blazed ruddily in one corner, and lighted up a circle of as villanous countenances as ever flame shone upon. “I’m not gentle. This discovery made, I hastened back to London to offer you my hand, but found you had married in the mean time a smock-faced, smooth-tongued carpenter named Sheppard. —"Stay! something occurs to me. She had turned round sideways, so as to look down into the fire. Perceiving he was about to take leave, Kneebone ventured to ask whom he had had the honour of addressing. To her great surprise and mortification he was not alone; but brought with him a couple of friends, whom he begged to introduce as Mr. “I’ve broken off my engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in her neck. " "I feel bewildered," said Ruth. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. He was aroused from his slumber, about six o'clock, by the return of Abraham Mendez, who not choosing to confess that Jack had eluded his vigilance, contended himself with stating that he had kept watch till daybreak, when he had carefully searched the field, and, finding no trace of him, had thought it better to return. ” “Anything except that,” he murmured.
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