” He paused with a sense of ineptitude. “I wonder,” he said, “is there anything we could do to help you to get rid of him?” “Can you think of anything?” Anna answered. "You thank Heaven for the escape of the man who did his best to get your child's neck twisted. “You are unjust and quixotic, Anna, you have no right to treat any one as you are treating me. Even in his fevered hours, so the girl had said, his tongue had not betrayed him. You yourself, I am sure, recognize how impossible you have made it for me now to do anything of the sort. She could no longer wait. I am ready to wait for you, to wait your pleasure, to give all my life to winning it. ’ ‘That’s better. The odd creak was not to be avoided in an old house such as this. “Dear me! I wonder where Sir John picked her up. ’ Gosse’s eyes went to the portrait, and evidently took in the uncanny resemblance, looking from it to Melusine and back again. Boys, at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior. ‘And I don’t mind telling you it goes agin’ the grain with me to let you go free and all, missie. Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor.
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