‘Martha was my wet-nurse? But she is unmarried. "Be ruled by me," returned Thames. Lucy collapsed to the floor in a sob. ‘I find this was excessively clever of Gérard. But, alas! she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. . Supposing I made up my mind to marry some one of good enough family, but who was in a somewhat doubtful position, concerning whose antecedents, in fact there was a certain amount of scandal. ‘Well! I hadn’t no notion as he’d got hisself married again. “The rarefied air? I thought you had a better head. She had been forced to buy herself that pair of boots and a walking-skirt, and the pearl necklace at the pawnbrokers’ had yielded very disappointingly. A door led to the inner room; and it was evident from the peals of merriment, and other noises, that, ever and anon, resounded from within, that this chamber was occupied by the Marquis and his friends. Ann Veronica became violently excited at the sight. Wood, now more buxom and more gorgeously arrayed than ever,—as well as a young and beautiful female, in whom he was at no loss to recognise the carpenter's daughter. And as he gave back the portfolio to Sir Rowland he contrived, unobserved, to slip the precious document into his sleeve, and from thence into his pocket. ‘Lord in heaven, did I do that?’ exclaimed Gerald remorsefully.
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