” At this point she had perceived that she was drifting from her subject. Wood—" "That's false!" cried a voice behind him. ‘Sapristi,’ he gasped. I want to leave it for ever. The few pence left in her purse would only provide a very scanty lunch. On the same day, moreover, which, by a curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:—the cry of the populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!" The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in promises to their proselytes. Manning relinquished his cup, and looked meaningly at Ann Veronica. Her aunt arrived about halfpast ten, in black and with an unusually thick spotted veil. Nothing but the publicity of the place and the recollection of that terrible constituency kept him from attempting some perfectly respectful but unmistakable evidence of his sympathy. I want her to tell me the whole truth about this extraordinary marriage. Above was a spacious hall, connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine. She and Courtlaw drove homewards together. "There's an old proverb," continued Wood, rising and walking towards the fire, "which says,—'Put another man's child in your bosom, and he'll creep out at your elbow. Another day of nonsuccess would mean many disagreeable things. "You are the son of Sir Montacute Trenchard, of Ashton-Hall, near Manchester.
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