He stood there, large and dark, enunciating, in his clear voice from beneath his large mustache, clear flat sentences, deliberately kindly. Sheppard, horror-stricken. Meanwhile, the clergyman, bare-headed and in his surplice, advanced to meet them. It was intolerable to think that he might overhear words and phrases. Alas! that the punishment of his offences should fall on her head. During this colloquy, Jack had contrived unobserved to put on the hood and cloak, and being about the size of the rightful owner, presented a very tolerable resemblance to her. It was horrible. ‘Hilary!’ The captain appeared, alert at the note in his major’s voice as Gerald had known he would be. ‘Flirting, Gerald? A new come-out for you. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. She saw, twenty yards down the platform, the shiny hat and broad back and inimitable swagger of Ramage. He, next, discovered that Blueskin was gone; and, pursuing his scrutiny, found that he had carried off all the banknotes, gold, and letters,—including, what Jonathan himself was not aware of,—the two packets which he had abstracted from the person of Thames.
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