After he was gone in the morning, Ruth would steal into the study and hurriedly read what he had written the previous night. ’ The lady frowned suspiciously. The wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. She bolted awake in the large bed which was awash in a sea of silks, furs, and red curtains. She went across to the little window again, her back to Melusine. “I meant to say good-bye to you to-night. He occupied one of the smaller houses near the station. He had very nearly cleared the board, when a knock was heard below, and descending at the summons, he found his two janizaries. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. " And, committing Thames to the care of the watchman, he darted after the fugitive. "If Jack would come to my house, I'd contrive to hide him," remarked a buxom dame. Perhaps, after all, the others were right.
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