“Ugh!” she said. ‘How could you? No wonder mademoiselle is angry with you. Treasure caves to explore! All through these trying days she had recurrently wondered what this strange young man would have to say that Dickens and Hugo had not already said. “Well,” she achieved at last. " "Thank God for that!" cried Wood, heartily. " Figg turned aside to hide the tears that started to his eyes,—for the stout prizefighter, with a man's courage, had a woman's heart,—and the procession again set forward. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. He was plainly attired in a riding-dress and boots of the period, and wore a hanger by his side. Ann Veronica looked down at her fingers on the claret-colored table-cloth. “That’s not. "Them's catchpoles, I s'pose, Sir, arter the gemman with a writ?" he observed. Spurlock lay with his head on his arms, asleep. From under his pillow he dragged forth the key to the trunk. He fancied, indeed, that he beheld a figure spring upon the starling at the moment when the boats came in contact; but, as he could perceive no one near him, he concluded he must have been mistaken.
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