“You may find in it a paragraph of some interest to you. “I went to Anna’s rooms because I felt that I must see her. And thus he was once more free, having effected one of the most wonderful escapes ever planned or accomplished. On the same peg and evidently belonging to it was a black velvet Zouave jacket. Pig and brute! Yet calling him hard names would not help her. "Shall I never banish those horrible phantoms from my couch—the father with his bleeding breast and dripping hair!—the mother with her wringing hands and looks of vengeance and reproach!—And must another be added to their number—their son! Horror!—let me be spared this new crime! And yet the gibbet—my name tarnished—my escutcheon blotted by the hangman!—No, I cannot submit to that. You see, aunt, it’s the only possible way for me to get a good degree in my subjects, and father won’t hear of it. “Are you cold?” He asked her, cocking his head to one side like a puppy, so close that the heat of his words warmed her cheek. Is that it? I thought this very pretty. The Widgetts talked with a remarkable absence of external coverings; the Palsworthys found all the meanings of life on its surfaces. But in his presence a wall of diffidence and timidity encompassed her. Sheppard's dress—extremely neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly, have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. I just suppose it isn’t worth the trouble. Taber is the name. At length, about an hour before dawn on the second day—Sunday—having spent the early part of the night in watching at the gates of the robbers' sanctuary, and being almost exhausted from want of rest, she set out homewards.
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