"I came to see Jack Sheppard, and I won't go till you point him out to me. Melusine fetched her stool and plonked it down next to her great-aunt’s chair. A constant attendant at court, he had the mortification to see every one promoted but himself, and thus bewails his ill-luck. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. ‘Lucy, do not say that you have told everyone all that I have done?’ ‘Well, yes, but—’ Consternation filled Melusine’s breast. ‘That little kiss cost him his sanctuary, my girl, and don’t you forget it. Wouldn't take my advice. The comments on the makeover lessened but were replaced by long admiring glances by boys who had never before given her the time of day. ’ ‘Eh bien, what then?’ Emile sidled closer. "More than you'll pay for it, friend," snuffled the Jew.
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