The girl was flushed with excitement, bright-eyed, and braced for a struggle; her aunt had never seen her looking so fine or so pretty. For a moment she too had started and faltered in her exit from the room. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had been robbed without knowing it. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small, whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and her bags. I don’t care. The knight stood upon his defence; but he would unquestionably have been torn in pieces by the savage hounds, if a shower of oaths, seconded by a vigorous application of kicks and blows from their master, had not driven them growling off. Taking advantage of his embarrassed position, Jonathan and his assistant rushed upon him, and disarmed him. ’ But Major Alderley might have been an expert for all the sound he made as he forced the lock with the heavy blade.
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