CHAPTER II. He is in the care of those who will not leave the task assigned to them—the utter perversion of his principles—half-finished. 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. Leave the rest to me. I’m in a mess—a nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess! “Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess! “Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things? “Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!” She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. " "Why did you use the name of Taber?" "To keep my real name out of the mess I expected to make of myself over here. ’ There was a pause. II. "How old are you?" demanded Miss Prudence. Sheppard, passionately,—"he has my boundless gratitude, and devotion. Her head dangled unnaturally for an instant, unleashed from its moorings, then sank to join her husband’s on the floor. Apparently she was always doomed to weep when she talked to her father. Oh! I'm in such a fluster!" Upon which, she snatched up her fan, cast a look into the glass, smoothed down her scarf, threw a soft expression into her features, and led the way into the next room, whither she was followed by her daughter and Thames Darrell. My whole life shall be devoted to you, beloved girl. From this singular collection Trenchard turned to regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of so unscrupulous a miscreant.
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