" On the appearance of his visitors, Sheppard arose,—his gyves clanking heavily as he made the movement,—and folding his arms, so far as his manacles would permit him, upon his breast, steadily returned the glances fixed upon him. It was not your fault you failed. He smiled grandly; she could feel the radiance of his approval from across the wedding table. It was clear it must be to-morrow. "What?—help take care of him? Why, you can't do that, Miss Enschede!" was the protest. 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. ‘Gérard—’ ‘What now?’ he asked, rife with suspicion. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. “These are the playgrounds of life. In the distance a barrel-organ was grinding out a pot pourri of popular airs. Proceeding to the entry to the Lower Leads, they came to the two strong doors, and their surprise was so great at Jack's marvellous performance, that they could scarcely persuade themselves that human ingenuity could have accomplished it.
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