Her lips were apart, but no breath seemed to issue from them; and, but for a slight—very slight palpitation of the bosom, the vital principle might be supposed to be extinct. Courtlaw sat with folded arms. The shock and distress were genuine. Following her lead, he fortified himself with a swallow of the excellent Madeira before responding. Occasionally he relit his pipe. Louis the Fourteenth yet lived, and expectations were, therefore, indulged of assistance from France. With me behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. No Cantonese was in those days permitted to cross to the Sha-mien after sunset without a license.
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